The Whatcom County Hearing Examiner sided with six local environmental groups in ruling that Whatcom County mishandled its review of a series of expansions of a liquefied petroleum gas facility near Bellingham. The County must now conduct an independent capacity analysis of the terminal expansion and redo its environmental analysis.
This matter came before the court on March 20, 2026 for a hearing on Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction and for the reasons explained below, the court will deny Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
Montana Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife, and The Wilderness Society sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its abandonment of critical protections for the declining greater sage-grouse.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland rejected Washington Gas’s challenge to Montgomery County’s Comprehensive Building Decarbonization Ordinance