This does not seem to have been posted here, but a bit of very good news in the fight for sustainability and against climate denialism, in the form of a rebuke to Trump’s Interior Dept.
U.S. District Judge Brian Morris upheld the core assertion by the plaintiffs, although he ruled against other claims. Morris ordered the BLM "to conduct new coal screening and consider climate change impacts to make a reasoned decision on the amount of recoverable coal made available" in the Miles City and Buffalo areas.
The Montana decision is the latest setback courts have dealt to federal coal mining plans in the Powder River Basin for failing to account for damage to the climate. In August, a federal judge stopped Signal Peak Energy from expanding a 176 million-ton mine in central Montana because the Interior Department did not comprehensively account for climate impacts. A month later, a federal appeals court told BLM that it had to re-do its assessment of the climate consequences of four huge coal leases because they were economically "irrational."
This may not be a complete victory by any means but it is still a win. And its an outcome in one of a number of lawsuits by environmental organizations against the Trump regime. It’s nice to have a bit of good news to celebrate