BLM Claims Groups Lack Standing To Block Drilling Permits In California

Trump administration attorneys representing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are contending that environmentalists who sued the agency to block oil and gas drilling on public land in central California lack standing and that the court should dismiss their case. “Although Plaintiffs allege they have standing to challenge 29 federal drilling permits approved by BLM . . . they fail to allege an ‘actual or imminent’ injury,” states BLM’s April 25 motion to dismiss in Center for Biological Diversity (CBD),...