United States Ninth Circuit
Native Village of Point Hope v. Jewell, 12-35287
Summary judgment in favor of federal defendants in an action challenging the government’s environmental impact statements analyzing the environmental effects of proposed leases for oil and gas development in the Chukchi Sea of the northwest coast of Alaska, is reversed and remanded, where: 1) the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the federal defendants properly took account of incomplete or unavailable information; but 2) the reliance in the Final Environmental Impact Statement on a one million barrel estimate of total economically recoverable oil was arbitrary and capricious.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/22/2014
- Published 01/22/2014
Judges
- FLETCHER
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit