Parties oppose groups’ intervention in NEPA deadline suit

The Department of the Interior (DOI) and Signal Peak are both opposing environmentalists’ motion to intervene on DOI’s behalf in the first lawsuit seeking to enforce a newly enacted deadline to complete a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review, with both sides arguing the suit is procedural and that the four groups seeking intervention lack standing. DOI in a June 5 filing in the high-profile case, Signal Peak Energy LLC v. Haaland , pending in U.S. District Court for the...