WILDEARTH GUARDIANS v. U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MGT.

Civil No. 12-708(RCL).

922 F.Supp.2d 51 (2013)

WILDEARTH GUARDIANS and Sierra Club, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, Federal Defendant, and The State of Wyoming, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 13, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Jay Tutchton , Wildearth Guardians , Centennial, CO, Samantha Ruscavage-Barz , Wildearth Guardians , Santa Fe, NM, Nathaniel Thomas Shoaff , Nathan Douglas Matthews , Joanne Marie Spalding , Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

John S. Most , Department of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Defendant.

James Kaste , State of Wyoming, Cheyenne, WY, for Intervenor-Defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs Wildearth Guardians and Sierra Club brought this action challenging four decisions by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") to authorize the sale of federal coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. BLM moved the Court to transfer the action to the District of Wyoming. Def.'s Mot. to Transfer, ECF No. 18. For reasons given below, the Court will GRANT this motion.

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