"Judge blocks Colorado coal mine plan, orders feds to evaluate climate impacts", 28 Jun 2014

A court ruling issued in Colorado on Friday could nudge government agencies toward making more honest assessments of the climate impacts tied to the projects they approve for federal lands. The June 27 order from U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson prevents Arch Coal Inc. from expanding coal mining into a roadless area southeast of Paonia…finding that the [Colorado-specific roadless] rule didn’t adequately assess how the rule affects climate where it carves out exemptions for mining…The coal mining proposal has been disputed since 2010, when Arch Coal first asked to expand mining in the vicinity of the existing West Elk mine…“We are disappointed in today’s ruling. We believe that the ruling contains several serious errors,” said Arch Coal…