“Having reviewed the record and the relevant law, the Court concludes that - withholding judgment on whether BLM’s leasing decisions were correct - BLM did not sufficiently consider climate change when making those decisions,” Judge Contreras wrote in the order.
“While the judge’s ruling relates to lands that were leased for fracking in Wyoming, the judge made clear the Interior Department and its Bureau of Land Management have to start accounting for the impacts of oil and gas development on a regional and national scale,” Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for WildEarth, said in an email.
[Anon's note: from a technical standpoint it would be technically impossible and ludicrous to evaluate the worldwide effects a single project - or in this case a group of leases - on the issue of climate change, which is a dubious theory itself. You might be able to analyze (or guess) yourself how much effect issuing these 282 leases in Wyoming will effect global temperatures in the long term. If this ruling were to change how the NEPA process functions it would put a virtual end to all energy development in the US.]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-drilling-over-climate-change-casting-doubt-on-trump-agenda-idUSKCN1R11YL