Sierra Club v. Bureau of Land Management

How courts have described this case

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• holding wind project had independent utility from road on federal land because developers could have used a private road instead
• explaining Fox did not apply to an agency’s “evolving analysis” that “was not a change in a published regulation or official policy”
• consultation required where a private project is “funded, authorized, or constructed by any federal agency”
• consultation required where a private project is “funded, authorized, or constructed by any federal agency”
• “The test for interrelatedness or interdependentness 68 CTR. FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY V. BUREAU OF LAND MGMT. is ‘but for’ causation . . . .” (quoting Sierra Club v. Marsh, 816 F.2d 1376, 1387 (9th Cir. 1987))

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