"The Interior Department failed to analyze the cumulative impact that new fossil fuel exploration on a million acres of federally managed land in Colorado will have on the climate, the Center for Biological Diversity said in an Oct. 8 lawsuit.
Although the Bureau of Land Management acknowledges the adverse impacts of pollution and climate change traceable to human activity, it fails to officially analyze such possibilities in the environmental impact statement that the agency is using to support the historic lease sale plan in the Grand Junction area, the new suit says.
The agency, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, has failed to take a hard look at the indirect and cumulative environmental impacts that can’t be avoided should the Grand Junction leases go forward, the environmental group says."
Porter Wells reports for Bloomberg Environment October 8, 2019.
SEE ALSO:
"Oil And Gas: BLM Colo. Plan Did Not Fully Consider Climate — Lawsuit" (EnergyWire)
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