Joseph Emmanuel Watkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an agency's decision to issue a lease for a windpower project \without first obtaining sufficient site-specific data ... violated\ NEPA (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that it was arbitrary and capricious for the Fish and Wildlife Service to \disregard\ new, post-remand data submitted by plaintiffs where it had otherwise reopened the record
• finding that the Fish and Wildlife Service reopened the record by choosing to rely on new, post-remand analysis proffered by its in-house economist
• explaining that the second AlliedSignal factor includes consideration of “social and economic costs”
• requiring the agency \to supplement [the impact statement] with adequate geological surveys before [the project] may begin construction\
• declining to vacate a lease or regulatory approvals but vacating an EIS and imposing conditions on the lessee’s activity

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