The following excerpt is from Alaska Eskimo Whaling Comm'n v. U.S. Envtl. Prot. Agency, 791 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2015):
Under the controlling rule for the review of administrative agency actions, a reviewing court, in dealing with a determination or judgment which an administrative agency alone is authorized to make, must judge the propriety of such action solely by the grounds invoked by the agency. If those grounds are inadequate or improper, the court is powerless to affirm the administrative action by substituting what it considers to be a more adequate or proper basis. SEC v. Chenery Corp. (Chenery II), 332 U.S. 194, 196, 67 S.Ct. 1575, 91 L.Ed. 1995 (1947). We must remand rather than combing the record for evidence on which the agency may have relied. Id.
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