( February 20, 2025, 11:47 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Environmental advocacy groups on Feb. 19 sued President Donald J. Trump and his administration in Alaska federal court, arguing that the president’s executive order reopening areas of the outer continental shelf for hydraulic fracturing violates the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), which they say authorizes the president to withdraw unleased lands of the outer continental shelf from drilling but does not give the president the power to reopen areas that have been withdrawn....