ELR Citation: ELR 20280
No(s). 08-35402 (9th Cir. Dec 2, 2009)

The Ninth Circuit held that FWS regulations authorizing the non-lethal take of polar bears and Pacific walrus by oil and gas activities in and along the Beaufort Sea on the Northern Coast of Alaska do not violate the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) or NEPA. The term “gas and oil exploratio...