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MOBILE, Alabama — A federal judge has ruled that an environmental group can continue to pursue a lawsuit claiming the government violated environmental policies in approving oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The environmental groups maintain that leases were approved without any environmental review that considered the impact of the Deepwater Horizon blowout and the oil spill.

The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the suit on behalf of the group Defenders of Wildlife. The lawsuit claimed the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act when it approved 221 oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico following the oil spill.

U.S. District Judge William Steele in Mobile on Monday ruled the environmental group can continue to pursue its claims.

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