(United States Ninth Circuit) - In an action brought by environmental groups alleging that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement acted unlawfully in approving two of Shell's oil spill response plans for its oil leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas on Alaska's Arctic coast,the district court's grant of summary judgment whether favor of oil company defendants is affirmed where the Bureau's approval of the spill response plans was not arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise not in accordance with law under the Administrative Procedures Act.
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