( February 7, 2024, 11:45 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys for environmental groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) debated before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals regarding whether the BLM’s approval of the Willow Project, a hydraulic fracturing operation in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, violated the agency’s obligations under federal law. The attorney representing the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) said the BLM is “supposed to look before they leap.”...