A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its revocation of President Joe Biden's protections for 625 million acres of federal waters from offshore drilling.

Several climate advocacy groups claim that the US President's undoing of marine protections is illegal. View on euronews

Several conservation groups filed litigation in federal court in Alaska this week seeking to stop efforts by the Trump administration to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, including in the U.S. Arctic Ocean off the state's coasts.

The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel production.

Two conservation coalitions are asking a federal court to keep protections ordered by former President Joe Biden.

A new lawsuit seeks to block Trump from revoking former President Joe Biden’s ban on offshore drilling in certain coastal areas, while a new filing in a case from the first Trump administration seeks to reinstate prohibitions against drilling in 128 million acres of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration. Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal.

Joining the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, legal action has been taken to top the president from opening up more coastal waters to drilling.