Kempthorne

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE; 

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE

COUNCIL, INC.; PACIFIC

ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES

CENTER,

v. Petitioners,  No. 07-71457

DIRK KEMPTHORNE, et al., Respondent,

SHELL OFFSHORE, INC.,

Respondent-Intervenor. 

RESISTING ENVIRONMENTAL 

DESTRUCTION ON INDIGENOUS LANDS,

A PROJECT OF THE INDIGENOUS

ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK;

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL

DIVERSITY AND SIERRA CLUB,

Petitioners,  No. 07-71989 v. DIRK KEMPTHORNE, et al., Respondent,

SHELL OFFSHORE, INC.,

Respondent-Intervenor. 

15551 15552 ALASKA WILDERNESS v. KEMPTHORNE

NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH; ALASKA 

ESKIMO WHALING COMMISSION,

Petitioners, No. 07-72183  v. DOI No. 2007-152 DIRK KEMPTHORNE, et al., Respondent, OPINION

SHELL OFFSHORE, INC.,

Respondent-Intervenor.  On Petition for Review of a Decision of the Department of Interior

Argued and Submitted December 4, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed November 20, 2008

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Stephen Reinhardt, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge D.W. Nelson; Dissent by Judge Bea 15556 …