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Today, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and environmental groups filed their opening brief today challenging the Biden administrationâs decision to defend a Trump-era policy continuing coal leasing on public lands.
Former Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke reversed an Obama-era moratorium barring companies from future leasing of most federal lands for coal exploration or extraction. In 2019, Earthjustice, on behalf of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Citizens for Clean Energy, Montana Environmental Information Center, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, and Defenders of Wildlife, won a challenge to this Trump policy. However, the court-ordered remedy for the Trump administration, an environmental assessment, was also flawed. So the groups went back to court last year to challenge it. Today, the groups filed the opening brief to that second challenge.Â
For Immediate Release, May 18, 2021
Contact:
Michael Saul, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 915-8308 msaul@biologicaldiversity.org
Thomas Young, Sierra Club, (719) 393-2354, thomas.young@sierraclub.org
Environmental Groups Head to Court Against Biden Administration’s Defense of Federal Coal Leasing
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Mont. Tribal and environmental groups filed their opening brief today challenging the Biden administration’s decision to defend a Trump-era policy continuing coal leasing on public lands. The brief argues that the Trump administration unlawfully tried to paper over fatal flaws in its rushed attempt to justify a policy reopening public lands to polluting coal mining.
In 2017 former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reversed an Obama-era moratorium barring companies from future leasing of most federal lands for coal exploration or extraction pending completion of an environmental review. In 2019 Earthjustice, on behalf of the Northern Che
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