Edwardsen v. U.S. Dept. of Interior

268 F.3d 781 (9th Cir. 2001) CHARLES EDWARDSEN, JR., BILL TEGOSEAK, ABEL AKPIK, ROSEMARY AHTUANGARUAK, JOSEPH AKPIK, MABEL KALEAK, GREENPEACE, INC., PETITIONERS, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE, RESPONDENT, AND BP EXPLORATION (ALASKA) INC., STATE OF ALASKA, INTERVENOR-RESPONDENTS. No. 99-71397 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Argued and Submitted August 8, 2001 Filed September 26, 2001 Jennifer B. App and Michael J. Frank, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, for the petitioner Greenpeace, Inc. Nancy S. Wainwright, Anchorage, Alaska, for individual petitioners. Mark R. Haag, U.S. Department of Justice for the respondents. Frederick R. Anderson, Jonathan R. Stone and David F. Williams, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor-respondent. Appeal from the United States Department of the Interior Before: Schroeder, Chief Judge, T.G. Nelson and Silverman, Circuit Judges. Schroeder, Chief Judge: 1 Since 1978, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ("OCSLA"), 43 U.S.C. &#167 1331 et seq., has set forth the procedures for administrative approval of offshore oil drilling on the Outer…