( December 17, 2025, 10:00 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. on Dec. 16 filed a preliminary answer in Alaska federal court as an intervenor defendant in a dispute between Native American groups and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum related to plans to conduct hydraulic fracturing operations in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA), in which ConocoPhillips denies that the groups are entitled to any relief....