( October 7, 2025, 2:32 PM EDT) -- GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge in Maryland on Oct. 7 issued a paperless order as a note on the docket, staying proceedings in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups that challenges the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) issuance of “an arbitrary and capricious programmatic biological opinion governing federally authorized oil and gas activities in the Gulf.” The note indicated that the proceedings were halted as a result of the shutdown of the federal government....