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Environmental groups are resuming a legal challenge against the Interior Department's plan to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain. In October, the Interior Department announced plans to reinstate a leasing program to open nearly all of the 1.56-million-acre area for drilling. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity, and Friends of the Earth filed an amended complaint in a federal court in Alaska, claiming the plan violates environmental laws.