Alaska Fracking Advocates Seek Relief In Dispute With Biden Administration

( December 8, 2023, 9:13 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Hydraulic fracturing advocates have filed a reply brief in Alaska federal court seeking relief from final judgment which granted summary judgment to the Biden administration in a dispute over the president’s moratorium on federal fracking leases, arguing that the decision by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to cancel the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s (AIDEA) oil and gas leases on the Coastal Plain has rendered the controversy moot....