Judge Cites Lack Of Cumulative Climate Analysis In Oil & Gas Lease Vacatur

A federal district judge is citing the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) failure to consider cumulative climate change impacts when approving hundreds of oil and gas leases as one of several reasons to vacate the leases on nearly 150,000 acres of public land in Montana. In a decision issued May 1 , Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana held in Wildearth Guardians, et al. v. BLM that the “large-scale nature of environmental...