Court Upholds BLM’s ‘Fulsome’ NEPA GHG Reviews Of Oil & Gas Leasing

A federal district court is approving the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) choice not to conduct a more-rigorous National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of the greenhouse gas effects of a series of recent oil and gas lease sales, including the agency’s decision not to determine if GHGs from the leases are “significant.” BLM’s “fulsome treatment” of GHG emissions already “satisfies BLM’s obligation to analyze the cumulative impact of the lease sales. Taken together, that analysis far exceeds the cumulative...