Environmental Groups Can Challenge Drilling Permits, They Say – Bloomberg Law

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By Shayna Greene
Conservation groups told a federal appeals court that they have standing to challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of more than 4,000 drilling permits in New Mexico and Wyoming.
The organizations are appealing the US District Court for the District of Columbia’s November decision, which held that the groups didn’t show an injury-in-fact and therefore lack standing.
They provided “detailed declarations from members who describe the cumulative magnitude of injuries caused by living, working, and recreating within an ever-increasing industrialized oil and gas landscape, and explain how these harms will be amplified by BLM’s approvals,” the brief said. …
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