GREAT BASIN RESOURCE v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

No. 14-16812.

844 F.3d 1095 (2016)

GREAT BASIN RESOURCE WATCH; Western Shoshone Defense Project, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT; U.S. Department of the Interior; Amy Lueders, BLM State Director; Christopher J. Cook, BLM Mt. Lewis Field Manager, Defendants-Appellees, Eureka Moly, LLC, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 28, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Flynn (argued) and Jeffrey C. Parsons , Western Mining Action Project, Lyons, Colorado; Julie Cavanaugh-Bill , Cavanaugh-Bill Law Offices LLC, Elko, Nevada; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Robert J. Lundman (argued) and Mark R. Haag ; John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General; Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Luke Miller , Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Francis M. Wilkstrom (argued), Salt Lake City, Utah, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Susan P. Graber and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Mark W. Bennett, District Judge.


OPINION

Plaintiffs Great Basin Resource Watch and the Western Shoshone Defense Project challenge Defendant Bureau of Land Management's ("BLM") approval of the Mt. Hope Project ("Project"), a proposed molybdenum mining operation near Eureka, Nevada. Plaintiffs argue that the BLM's review of the Project under the National...

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