10th Circuit halts Colorado ‘roadless’ work in NEPA suit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit is backing environmentalists’ request to block roadbuilding to access a coal mine in a roadless area of Colorado, issuing an unusual emergency injunction that halts the work during the appeal over the project’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review. The court in an Oct. 29 order in High Country Conservation Advocates, et al. v. U.S. Forest Service, et al . enjoins Mountain Coal Co. “from imminently bulldozing additional drilling pads on...