North Slope Borough v. Minerals Management Serv.

ELR Citation: ELR 20208
No(s). 08-35180 (9th Cir. Aug 27, 2009)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing an Alaskan community's lawsuit against the Minerals Management Service (MMS) challenging its decision not to prepare a supplemental EIS for a proposed oil and gas lease sale on a tract of the outer continental shelf in the Beaufort Sea. MM...