JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge refused to block the project, denying a request by opponents who said it was improperly analyzed by the U.S. government but that the company said was imperative to preserving its leases. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason, in an order dated Tuesday, rejected a request by conservation groups and an Iñupiat-aligned group

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