Officials in Eagle County, Colorado have filed another lawsuit, this time related to an amended right-of-way that they say will greatly increase the transloading of oil trains in Carbon County. Filed on March 26th, the Plaintiff is listed as Eagle County, Colorado and the Defendants are listed as the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management. The Plaintiff listed the following as reasons for the complaint: The Department of the Interior’s “arbitrary and unlawful issuance of emergency environmental review procedures under the pretext of an energy emergency that violates Interior’s regulations and federal law, and the BLM’s rushed authorization under the unlawful emergency environmental review procedures of an amended right-of-way that would significantly increase the transloading of oil trains at Wildcat Loadout Facility in Carbon County, Utah.” This latest lawsuit by Eagle County is filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
