For a read on how serious the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be about putting the screws to its enviro-friendly judges, keep an eye on Alaska Wilderness League v. Kempthorne .
A split panel in that case blocked oil drilling Thursday in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, finding that federal authorities didn’t take a hard enough look at Shell Offshore Inc.’s plan. Judge Dorothy Nelson expressed particular concern about how drilling will affect bowhead whales and subsistence hunting by local Eskimos. Judge Stephen Reinhardt joined her.
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