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The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel production.

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to stop the Trump administration from opening up vast new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling.

The suit is an opening shot in what is likely to be a series of cases aimed at thwarting the White House’s push for what it calls “energy dominance” by pivoting toward fossil fuels and away from cleaner energy sources like solar and wind.

Upon taking office, President Trump said he was revoking Biden-era protections against drilling for certain areas along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and in the Arctic. Today’s lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska by Earthjustice, a nonprofit law firm, on behalf of several groups. It argues that while Congress

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