Bernhardt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DESERT PROTECTION SOCIETY, No. 2:19-cv-00198-TLN-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER DAVID BERNHARDT, JOE STOUT,

THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF

LAND MANAGEMENT, AND THE

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF

THE INTERIOR, Defendants. 18 This matter is before the Court on Proposed Defendant-Intervenor, Eagle Crest Energy Company, Inc.’s (“ECEC”), Motion to Intervene and accompanying memorandum of points and authorities and attached Proposed Answer (ECF Nos. 6, 7, 7-1). Neither Plaintiff Desert Protection Society (“Plaintiff”) nor Defendants David Bernhardt, Joe Stout, the United States Bureau of Land Management, and the United States Department of the Interior (collectively “Federal Defendants”) have taken a position on the Motion (ECF Nos. 12, 13). For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS ECEC’s Motion to Intervene. I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND The instant litigation concerns a challenge to the August 2018 approval of…