Environmentalists Expand Suit Targeting Western Oil & Gas Leasing

Environmental groups are significantly expanding their litigation challenging the climate change-related analysis supporting federal oil and gas drilling leases across the West, targeting over 2,000 leases in five states while also trying to block nearly 500 separate leases that were the subject of a prior suit from the groups. Taken as a whole, the scope of the two new challenges appears to be trying to pressure the Trump administration to conduct a programmatic National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of...