( March 7, 2025, 8:17 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — Federal agencies have filed an answer in California federal court denying all allegations brought against them by environmental groups who have sued seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on grounds that the agencies’ approval of ExxonMobil Corp.’s offshore oil and gas drilling lease violates multiple laws because the government’s determination that the lease was in the national interest failed to “failed to consider several highly relevant factors.”...