United States Ninth Circuit

Under the National Environmental Policy Act, an environmental impact statement need not use the methodology in the Council on Environmental Quality's guidance on assessing cumulative impacts in order to adequately assess cumulative impacts.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/08/2001
• Decided 09/26/2001
• Published 09/26/2001

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, T.G. NELSON and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer B. App and Michael J. Frank, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, for the petitioner Greenpeace, Inc., Nancy S. Wainwright, Anchorage, Alaska, for individual petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark R. Haag, U.S. Department of Justice, for the respondents., Frederick R. Anderson, Jonathan R. Stone and David F. Williams, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor-respondent.