The Sierra Club has made news with its recent joint lawsuit, filed with WildEarth Guardians and the Defenders of Wildlife, against the Bureau of Land Management over the leasing of two tracts of coal in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
The lawsuit contends that the BLM failed to properly assess the environmental threats from mining, transporting, and burning of the 350 million tons of coal contained in the tracts, including the release of 643 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution into the atmosphere. Local media coverage of the lawsuit remains important to raising public awareness; the story appeared in the Wyoming news service WyoFile, the Wyoming Business Report, and the Casper Star-Tribune.
The lawsuit contends that the BLM failed to properly assess the environmental threats from mining, transporting, and burning of the 350 million tons of coal contained in the tracts, including the release of 643 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution into the atmosphere. Local media coverage of the lawsuit remains important to raising public awareness; the story appeared in the Wyoming news service WyoFile, the Wyoming Business Report, and the Casper Star-Tribune.
