( September 1, 2026, 11:19 AM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska vacated a 2025 decision by the secretary of the Interior that approved a land exchange between the secretary and a for-profit corporation to facilitate a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge which the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) stated at the time was part of the decision to officially open roughly 1,563,500 acres in the coastal plain of Alaska for oil and gas development....