Lochbaum v. Southwestern Box & Lumber Mfg. Co.

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• determining that an agency’s assertion that “quantifying [greenhouse gas] emissions . . .would be overly speculative” was “belied by an administrative record replete with information on oil and gas development and [greenhouse gas] emissions”
• refusing to vacate leasing decision but enjoining the BLM from issuing any further drilling permits based on the challenged decision pending remand
• remanding without vacatur where BLM failed to sufficiently consider climate impacts when authorizing leases
• “Plaintiffs, as the parties invoking this Court’s jurisdiction, bear the burden of establishing all three elements of standing.”
• “[P]laintiffs do not have a fundamental right to have or raise their children in the United States”
• emissions analysis required for project approving the issuance of 473 oil and gas leases issued through eleven different lease sales, covering over 460,000 acres of land in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado

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