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NATIVE VILLAGE OF POINT HOPE v. SALAZAR

Nos. 11-72891, 11-72943.

680 F.3d 1123 (2012)

NATIVE VILLAGE OF POINT HOPE; Alaska Wilderness League; Center for Biological Diversity; Defenders of Wildlife; Natural Resources Defense Council; National Audubon Society, Inc.; Northern Alaska Environmental Center; Oceana; Pacific Environment; Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands, Redoil; Sierra Club; The Wilderness Society, Inc.; Greenpeace, Inc., Petitioners, v. Kenneth Lee SALAZAR, Secretary of the Interior; Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Respondents, State of Alaska; Shell Offshore, Respondents-Intervenors. Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, Petitioner, v. Kenneth Lee Salazar, Secretary of the Interior; Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Respondents, State of Alaska; Shell Offshore Inc., Respondents-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 25, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holly A. Harris (argued), Earthjustice, Juneau, Alaska; Christopher Winter , Crag Law Center, Portland, Oregon, for petitioners Native Village of Point Hope, et al. and Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope.

David C. Shilton (argued), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondent Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, and Bureau of Ocean Management.

Kathleen M. Sullivan (argued), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, New York; Kyle W. Parker , Crowell & Moring LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for respondent-intervenor Shell Offshore Inc., et al.

Rebecca Kruse , State of Alaska Department of Law, Anchorage, Alaska, for respondent-intervenor the State of Alaska.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, CARLOS T. BEA and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

In these expedited petitions for review, we consider the allegations of Native Village of Point Hope et al. and Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope (collectively, "petitioners") that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) failed to discharge its obligations under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) in approving Shell Offshore Inc.'s plan for exploratory oil drilling in the Beaufort Sea. We have jurisdiction...

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