( December 20, 2023, 12:52 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on Dec. 19 moved in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to transfer a case brought against it and other federal agencies by proponents of hydraulic fracturing in Alaska to federal court there, arguing that related cases are currently pending in that jurisdiction and that those cases, as well as the case at hand, involve local interests and issues that should be heard and decided in Alaska....