(September 3, 2024, 3:01 PM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Native American tribal parties, which are intervenor defendants in a dispute over the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) cancellation of federal leases for hydraulic fracturing, filed a joinder on Aug. 30 to a brief filed by the DOI in Alaska federal court arguing that the plaintiffs’ claims under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) fail “in light of the [DOI’s] reasonable and well-supported record and rationale for lease cancellation.”...