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RESISTING ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION v. E.P.A.

No. 12-70518.

704 F.3d 743 (2012)

RESISTING ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION ON INDIGENOUS LANDS, REDOIL; Alaska Wilderness League; Center for Biological Diversity; Natural Resources Defense Council; Northern Alaska Environmental Center; Oceana; Pacific Environment; Sierra Club; The Wilderness Society, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent, Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc.; Shell Offshore Inc., Respondents-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colin C. O'Brien (argued), Earthjustice, Anchorage, AK; Eric P. Jorgensen , Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, for Petitioners.

Ignacio S. Moreno , Daniel Pinkston (argued), Alan D. Greenberg , United States Department of Justice, Denver, CO, for Respondent.

Kathleen M. Sullivan (argued), William B. Adams , David S. Mader , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY; Duane A. Siler , Sarah C. Bordelon , Tony G. Mendoza , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for Intervenors-Respondents.

Lisa E. Jones , Samuel B. Boxerman , and James R. Wedeking , Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, D.C., Mara E. Zimmerman , Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Petroleum Institute.

Cameron M. Leonard , Office of the Attorney General, Fairbanks, AK, for Amicus Curiae State of Alaska.

Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

Since 1990, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has been responsible for regulating air pollution from offshore sources on the Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") under the Clean Air Act ("the Act"). 42 U.S.C. § 7627. We consider here whether the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board ("EAB") properly upheld two air permits authorizing exploratory drilling operations in the Arctic Ocean by a drillship and its associated...

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