An environmental group and the United States Forest Service must brief a federal court on how the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo affects the approval of a clear cutting project in West Virginia’s Monogahela National Forest.
“Given this significant change in administrative law, the Court finds it imperative for the parties to re-brief this matter under the new framework,” Chief Judge Thomas S. Kleeh of the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia wrote.
- West Virginia Highlands Conservancy sued the Forest Service last year after the agency approved the Greenbrier Southeast Project, which ...