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NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASS'N v. RURAL UTILITIES

21-cv-096-wmc & 21-cv-306, Consolidated.

580 F.Supp.3d 588 (2022)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION, Driftless Area Land Conservancy, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife, Plaintiffs, v. RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, Christopher McLean, Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Charles Wooley, Midwest Regional Director, and Sabrina Chandler, Manager, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant General Scott A. Spellmon, Chief of Engineers and Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Colonel Steven Sattinger, Commander and District Engineer, Rock Island District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Colonel Karl Jansen, Commander and District Engineer, St. Paul District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Defendants, and American Transmission Company, LLC, Dairyland Power Cooperative, & ITC Midwest LLC, Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

Signed January 14, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Hurley, Hurley, Burish and Stanton S.C., Madison, WI, Howard A. Learner, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Benjamin Carlisle, Jacob David Ecker, Miranda M. Jensen, Devon Lea Flanagan, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Leslie Coleman, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Denver, CO, for Defendants Col. Steven Sattinger, Scott A. Spellmon, Col. Karl Jansen, United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Thomas Christian Jensen, Edward Andersen Boling, Stacey Bosshardt, Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, DC, David Ronald Zoppo, Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, WI, for Intervenor-Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

In this lawsuit, plaintiffs National Wildlife Refuge Association, Driftless Area Land Conservancy, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife challenge the actions of various federal agencies permitting the Cardinal-Hickory Creek ("CHC") Transmission Line Project, which...

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