President Clinton and President Obama created two illegal national monuments in rural Utah, causing serious economic harm to the hard-working westerners who live in the area. President Trump reversed the land grab but was sued for his efforts to restore the rule of law.
Although the federal government declined—because of the success of state conservation programs—to list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act, it illegally imposed Draconian rules that place vast acres of federal lands off limits to lawful grazing and oil and gas activity, which provide jobs and are vital to local communities.
In response to demands by extremist environmental groups, the federal government adopted land management plans that threaten historic and important economic activities to protect a bird that is neither threatened nor endangered. Environmental groups may not abuse the Endangered Species Act to close federal land in the West to lawful uses that are vital to local economies.
Case Summary Issue: Whether an entity with purely economic interests that is affected adversely by agency action decision may challenge the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document upon which the…
Case Summary Issue: Whether Congress may compel the delisting of a species from the Endangered Species Act list? Plaintiff: Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater, Wildearth Guardians,…
Case Summary Issue: Whether public forest roads upon which logging trucks travel need a federal Clean Water Act (CWA) permit for the stormwater runoff that enters a culvert and is…
Case Summary Issue: Whether States and private parties have standing to seek judicially fashioned emissions caps on four private utility companies for their alleged contribution to harms claimed to arise…
Case Summary Issue: Whether Montana complied with all State environmental laws and policies when it approved new well drilling permit applications? Plaintiff: Montana Wildlife Federation; National Wildlife Federation Defendant: Montana…
Case Summary Issue: Whether, and, if so to what extent, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must consider, analyze, and/or mitigate the global warming impacts of so-called greenhouse gases when…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Corps and the EPA reasonably concluded that the Section 404 program should govern material placed in waters of the United States where the material has…