( November 14, 2025, 10:37 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Native Americans have sued Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and others in Alaska federal court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief for violating multiple federal laws by entering into “an unlawful land exchange agreement with the King Cove Corporation (KCC) to facilitate a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge,” which the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced in October was part of the decision to officially open roughly 1,563,500 acres in the coastal plain of Alaska for hydraulic fracturing....