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ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE v. U.S. E.P.A.

No. 12-71506.

727 F.3d 934 (2013)

ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE; Center for Biological Diversity; Natural Resources Defense Council; Northern Alaska Environmental Center; Pacific Environment; Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands; Sierra Club; The Wilderness Society, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent, Shell Offshore Inc., Respondent-Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 15, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Ignacia S. Moreno and Angeline Purdy (briefed and argued), Assistant Attorneys General, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division; Alexander Fidis , Office of Regional Counsel, Region 10, United States Environmental Protection Agency; David Coursen , Office of General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, for Respondent.

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

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

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

Before: A. WALLACE TASHIMA, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

42 U.S.C. § 7661c(e) is ambiguous as to whether "increment" requirements are "applicable" to a temporary source like Shell Offshore, Inc.'s ("Shell") drill vessel Kulluk. Accordingly, we defer to the EPA Environmental Appeals Board's ("EAB") reasonable interpretation of § 7661c(e). See Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 104 S.Ct....

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