Natural Gas Groups Seek End to Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Case - Bloomberg Law
Natural Gas Groups Seek End to Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Case
Healthy Gulf, the Center for Biodiversity, the Sierra Club, and others claimed that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s supplemental environmental impact statement for Lease Sale 259, covering more than 73 million acres, was flawed and violated the National Environmental Policy Act.
The environmental groups also moved for summary judgment in June, stating that the government “failed to take a hard look at the impacts ...
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