Groups Broaden Case Against Trump Over Reopening Of Offshore Areas For Fracking

( October 28, 2025, 2:51 PM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Environmental groups that are challenging President Donald J. Trump’s executive order that reopened areas of the outer continental shelf (OCS) for hydraulic fracturing have filed a second amended and supplemental complaint in Alaska federal court,  broadening the case from a narrow challenge to Trump’s January rescission of former President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the OCS into an attack on Trump’s “unlawful attempt to undo permanent protections for certain areas” of the OCS and other regions that were instituted by former President Barack Obama....