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

The groups say the president does not have the authority to revoke an earlier president's ocean protections under federal law.

A coalition of conservation organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an attempt to stop it from allowing more drilling off the country’s coasts, including in California. The group said it is challenging President Donald Trump’s “illegal order to open protected areas of the ocean to future oil and gas leasing.