( December 4, 2025, 1:53 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chevron Corp. has filed an answer in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia as an intervenor defendant in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups challenging the “unlawful decision” of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and others to hold a sale for offshore hydraulic fracturing leases, arguing that the District Court lacks jurisdiction and that the groups lack standing to bring their claims....