COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER v. U.S. COAST GUARD

No. 12-73385.

761 F.3d 1084 (2014)

COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER; Columbia-Pacific Commonsense; Wahkiakum Friends of the River, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES COAST GUARD, Respondent, LNG Development Company, LLC, DBA Oregon LNG, Respondent-Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 5, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Buchele (argued) and Aubrey Baldwin , Earthrise Law Center, Portland, OR; Lauren Goldberg, Columbia Riverkeeper, Hood River, OR, for Petitioners.

Brian C. Toth (argued) and Robert J. Lundman , Attorneys, Appellate Section; Robert G. Dreher , Acting Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; John T. Dewey , Curtis E. Borland , Frank G. Nolan , and Bronwyn Douglass , United States Coast Guard, Washington, D.C. for Respondent.

Charles Scott , Fulbright & Jaworski, New York, NY, for Respondent-Intervenor.

Before: ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

This appeal addresses one of the several administrative proceedings in which Columbia Riverkeeper, Columbia-Pacific Common Sense, and Wahkiakum Friends of the River (collectively Riverkeeper) have attempted to intervene in an effort to prevent LNG Development Company, LLC (doing business as Oregon LNG), from constructing a liquefied natural gas facility and pipeline along the Columbia River in Oregon. As part of the lengthy...

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