Mealey's ( April 23, 2025, 2:27 PM EDT) -- FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Environmental advocacy groups have filed a reply brief in Alaska federal court arguing that it should set aside a ruling from 2021 in which Judge Sharon L. Gleason dismissed as moot a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump the groups filed during his first term challenging an executive order that opened areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the coast of Alaska for oil and gas drilling. The groups want the judge to reinstate an order and judgment she issued in 2019 in which she ruled that Trump acted unlawfully when he revoked former President Barack Obama’s permanent withdrawals of portions of Arctic and Atlantic outer continental shelf from future oil leasing....