OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION v. JEWELL

No. 13-36078.

823 F.3d 1258 (2016)

OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION; Audubon Society of Portland, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Sally JEWELL, Secretary of the Interior; Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees, Columbia Energy Partners, LLC; Harney County, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 26, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Lacy (argued), Oregon Natural Desert Association, Portland, Oregon; Laurence J. Lucas , Boise, Idaho; David H. Becker , Portland, Oregon, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

John C. Cruden , Assistant United States Attorney General, Washington D.C.; Ty Bair , Allen M. Brabender , & Peter Krzywicki (argued), United States Department of Justice, Washington D.C.; Veronica Larvie , Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Defendants-Appellees.

Jonathan M. Norling , Portland, Oregon, for Intervenor-Appellee Columbia Energy Partners.

Dominic M. Carollo (argued), Ronald S. Yockim , Yockim Carollo LLP, Roseburg, Oregon, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee Harney County.

Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Marsha S. Berzon, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Renewable energy projects, although critical to the effort to combat climate change, can have significant adverse environmental impacts, just as other large-scale developments do. Here, the Oregon Natural Desert Association and the Audubon Society of Portland (collectively, "ONDA") challenge a wind-energy...

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