( August 6, 2025, 12:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and other federal energy officials have filed a summary judgment reply brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing that the environmental group that is asserting a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) for the defendants’ alleged failure to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) related to the decommissioning of offshore hydraulic fracturing rigs is “trying to fit a square peg into a round hole” and is attempting to “use this lawsuit as a vehicle to challenge the general state of idle oil and gas infrastructure” in the Gulf of Mexico....