Environmentalists sue over Trump plan to drill in Colorado
DENVER, Colo. (AP) -- Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over plans to expand drilling, fracking and mining across public lands in southwestern Colorado.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Denver, alleges that the Bureau of Land Management violated federal law by pursuing a land-management plan for fossil fuel development that ignored environmental risks to agriculture, climate and endangered species.
Officials with the Bureau of Land Management didn’t immediately return an email seeking comment. The U.S. government’s plan covers about 2,700 square miles of mountains, woodlands and red-rock deserts and would allow fracking on public lands and a federal mineral estate.
