Mealey's (April 1, 2021, 11:43 AM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska on March 30 ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) determination that noise from an offshore hydraulic fracturing company’s tugboats towing the drilling rig to the well site would not cause “take” harassment to Cook Inlet beluga whales was “arbitrary and capricious” and she remanded the case to the NMFS for consideration of the cumulative effects of the tugboat operations....