In what is just the beginning of litigation in one of the largest environmental cases ever filed, an Idaho judge just kicked some cowboy ass, ruling against the BLM on 2.5 million acres of sage-grouse habitat. Oh yes he did.
The federal court ruled that resource management plans in Wyoming and Idaho failed to comply with legal obligations to adequately consider negative environmental impacts to wildlife and other environmental values that are affected by livestock grazing and oil and gas development. The two RMPs considered were just a subset of the larger case affecting 30 million acres, and its unclear where the ruling will go from here. This is just the first round, but it's a KO.
See that sage-grouse swagger? We're guessing that Western Watersheds Project and Advocates for the West, the two prevailing plaintiffs, have got a little of that today, too.
More here and here.
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