Nrdc

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE No. 12-56467 COUNCIL, INC., a non-profit corporation; EAST YARD D.C. No. COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL 2:09-cv-08055- JUSTICE, a non-profit corporation; JAK-MAN

COALITION FOR A SAFE

ENVIRONMENT, a non-profit corporation, OPINION Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION; RAY LAHOOD, in his official capacity as Secretary of Transportation; STATE OF

CALIFORNIA, DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION; VICTOR MENDEZ,

Administrator, Federal Highway Administration; JEFFREY PANIATI, in his official capacity as Acting Deputy Director of the Federal Highway Administration, Defendants-Appellees,

ALAMEDA CORRIDOR

TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY,

Real Party in Interest-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California John A. Kronstadt, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 14, 2014—Pasadena, California

Filed October 30, 2014

Before: John T. Noonan, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge…