After Nearly 6 Years, Groups Amend Arctic Drilling Case Against Federal Agencies

Mealey's ( January 26, 2026, 8:14 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Environmental advocacy groups have amended a complaint they initially filed in 2020, opposing the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) plan to open the Coastal Plain of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to hydraulic fracturing.  In the second amended and first supplemental complaint, the groups add to the list of federal laws that they say the defendants have violated through actions that are “arbitrary, capricious, and not in accordance with law.”...