A lawsuit filed in 2015 by WildEarth Guardians and the Grand Canyon Trust argued that the federal government violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it issued a coal lease that year at the Skyline Mine in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in central Utah. The lawsuit asserted that the federal government relied on an outdated environmental analysis that said next to nothing about how burning coal causes climate change. Read the opening brief › The case was settled on March 8, 2023. Read the settlement agreement ›
