Wyoming Lawmakers Suggest Appeal Of Landmark NEPA GHG Ruling

Wyoming’s congressional delegation is suggesting the Trump administration may need to appeal a landmark district court ruling that temporarily blocked oil and gas leasing in the state until officials completed a robust National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of the proposed projects’ greenhouse gas impacts. In an Aug. 19 letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, the Cowboy State’s Republican delegation -- Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, as well as Rep. Liz Cheney -- says that such an appeal may...