ALASKA ESKIMO WHALING COM'N v. U.S. E.P.A.

No. 13-70633.

791 F.3d 1088 (2015)

ALASKA ESKIMO WHALING COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator; Dennis J. McLerran, Region 10 Administrator, Respondents, Shell Offshore, Inc.; Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.; ConocoPhillips Company, Respondents-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 29, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher G. Winter (argued) and Layla Hughes , Crag Law Center, Portland, OR, for Petitioner.

Daniel Pinkston (argued), United States Department of Justice, Denver, CO; Sam Hirsch , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Angeline Purdy , Environmental Defense Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Kimberly A. Owens , Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency-Region 10, Seattle, Washington, for Respondents.

Kyle W. Parker (argued), Sarah Bordelon , Crowell & Moring LLP, Anchorage, Alaska; Cameron Leonard , Perkins Coie LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for Respondents-Intervenors Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. and Shell Offshore Inc.

Svend A. Brandt-Erichsen , Meline G. MacCurdy , Marten Law PLLC, Seattle, Washington, for Respondent-Intervenor ConocoPhillips Company.

Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., JAY S. BYBEE, and PAUL J. WATFORD, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission ("AEWC"), representing certain Alaska Native villages that engage in subsistence hunting of bowhead whales, petitions for review of the Beaufort Permit ("the Permit") issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination...

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