CONTROVERSIAL RAIL STUDY FACES CHALLENGE IN NOVEL NEPA CLIMATE SUIT

Environmentalists and landowners are challenging a new government review of the air quality impacts of a proposed railroad project that could provide lower-priced coal to Midwestern power plants, charging that the review flouts a landmark appellate ruling requiring the government to consider the project's greenhouse gas impacts. The Sierra Club and the Mid States Coalition for Progress, a group representing local landowners, say in an April 14 petition filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that...