NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER v. LUJAN

No. 91-35296.

961 F.2d 886 (1992)

NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER; Sierra Club, Inc.; Denali Citizens Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Manuel LUJAN, Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Alaska Miners Association, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee, and Joseph E. Vogler; Resource Development Council for Alaska, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Briggs, Marilyn J. Twitchell, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Juneau, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Barry M. Hartman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Dean K. Dunsmore, Dirk D. Snel, Martin W. Matzen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., Dennis Hopewell, Deputy Regional Sol., Dept. of Interior, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees.

Ronald A. Zumbrun, Robin L. Rivett, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, Cal., James S. Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-intervenors-appellees.

Before: WRIGHT and ALARCON, Circuit Judges, and DAVIES, District Judge.


ALARCON, Circuit Judge:

Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Denali Citizens Council, and the Sierra Club, Alaska Chapter (collectively, the "Sierra Club") appeal from the order that dissolved the injunction issued by the district court in 1988. The federal defendants (collectively, the "Park Service") were ordered in 1988 to prepare environmental impact statements ("EISs") that studied the cumulative environmental effects of mining before approving any further mining...

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