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Greens sue to stop BLM Nevada power line across national monument
A coalition of conservation groups is challenging the Bureau of Land Management's approval last year of the Greenlink West Transmission Line Project in Nevada that would cross a national monument established by Congress a decade ago to protect ice age fossils.
The lawsuit filed late Wednesday by Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Basin and Range Watch in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, asks the court to toss out BLM's approval of the 470-mile-long power line, which will run from Las Vegas along the state's western spine north to Reno.
The groups say in the complaint that they want the court to require BLM to devise a different route that does not cross the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument or impact so much undeveloped desert lands across seven counties, forever changing previously untouched places in Nevada.
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The lawsuit includes as defendants the National Park Service, which manages the national monument, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, which conducted a biological opinion as part of the review of the Greenlink West project.
