( May 27, 2025, 3:35 PM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — Environmental groups have filed a reply brief in Louisiana federal court reiterating that a case brought by states and hydraulic fracturing industry groups challenging orders issued by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that withdrew offshore waters from oil and gas leasing should be dismissed as moot and arguing that “neither the Plaintiffs nor the government provide any reason to doubt that the questions in this case have become all but academic.”...