Mealey's (February 10, 2023, 10:02 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Biden administration filed a brief in Alaska federal court contending that it should dismiss a case filed by groups that advocate for hydraulic fracturing activity in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) because the groups “do not approach the steep burden required to compel agency action,” nor do they demonstrate that the administration’s moratorium on federal lease sales in that region violated federal law....