A pair of energy companies are challenging a federal judge’s recent ruling requiring more environmental review for oil and gas drilling in Wyoming authorized during the first Trump administration.
Continental Resources and Devon Energy Production filed notice of their appeal Thursday in federal court in Washington. The companies owned nearly 500,000 acres of leases within the contested Converse County Oil and Gas Project.
The companies’ filing follows a separate appeal in the same court from the state of Wyoming.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in late February that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management violated the National Environmental Policy Act and other federal laws when it approved applications for permits to drill within the 1.5-million-acre project that included 5,000 new oil and gas wells.
