Judge Vacates Alaska Fracking Lease Cancellation, Says Agency’s Error Is ‘Serious’

( March 27, 2025, 1:38 PM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska on March 26 issued a judgment vacating the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to cancel federal fracking leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), enforcing an order in which the judge ruled that the “DOI’s error is serious:  DOI cancelled AIDEA’s leases without following the congressionally-mandated procedure for doing so.”...