United States Ninth Circuit

In environmental plaintiffs' challenge to the adequacy of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) prepared by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its plan to offer long term oil and gas leases in a portion of Alaska, summary judgment for the government is affirmed where the district court correctly held that, at this early stage of the oil and gas program at issue, the FEIS did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2006
• Published 07/26/2006

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge., Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN and ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Deirdre McDonnell, Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Bryson, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellees., Jeffrey W. Leppo, Seattle, Washington, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.