Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

OPINION

CANBY, Senior Circuit Judge:

The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (“AEWC”), representing certain Alaska Native villages that engage in subsistence hunting of bowhead whales, petitions for review of the Beaufort Permit (“the Permit”) issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) provisions of the Clean Water Act. The Permit authorizes the discharge by oil and gas exploration facilities of 13 waste streams into marine waters of the Beaufort Sea in accordance with the effluent limitations, monitoring requirements, and…