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.

Environmental groups on Wednesday moved in court to block President Donald Trump’s administration from allowing offshore oil drilling along broad swaths of U.S. coastline, in what appeared to be the first legal challenges to the Republicans’ efforts to boost fossil fuel production.

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.

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