( March 6, 2025, 11:58 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The clerk of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has issued an order officially dismissing an appeal brought by hydraulic fracturing proponents against the Biden administration over the delay caused by a temporary halt of the fracking lease program in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. The fracking supporters had moved to voluntarily dismiss their appeal on grounds that the final record of decision (ROD) for ANWR’s Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Program issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on Dec. 8 “completed DOI’s supplemental environmental review and expressly lifts the Moratorium for the oil and gas program rendering all claims in this appeal moot.”...