Environmental organizations—a number of which also were plaintiffs in a <a href="https://climatecasechart.com/case/northern-alaska-environmental-center-v-trump/">new lawsuit</a>—filed a motion in a lawsuit filed in 2017 to challenge President Trump’s revocation of President Obama’s withdrawals of certain Outer Continental Shelf areas in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from oil and gas leasing. The organizations asked the federal district court for the District of Alaska to reinstate its order and judgment holding that the 2017 revocations exceeded President Trump’s authority under OCSLA. The Ninth Circuit in 2021 vacated the district court’s judgment, finding that the appeals were moot after President Biden rescinded President Trump’s revocation and directing the district court to dismiss the organizations’ case without prejudice. In their motion pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), the organizations argued that the “extraordinary circumstance” of President Trump’s reinstatement of his prior revocation of President Obama’s withdrawals warranted relief from the dismissal of the case.

Challenge to executive order reversing President Obama’s withdrawal of lands in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from future oil and gas leasing. 

League of Conservation Voters v. Trump

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