( October 22, 2026, 10:17 AM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel dismissed an appeal brought by Native American tribes and environmental groups appearing as intervenors, finding that their challenge to a ruling vacating the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) cancellation of fracking leases belonging to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) is now moot because the leases at issue have been “reinstated.”...