Mealey's (March 2, 2020, 2:10 PM EST) -- BOISE, Idaho — A U.S. magistrate judge in Idaho on Feb. 27 granted partial summary judgment on one claim made by environmental advocacy groups who contend that the secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wrongly approved hydraulic fracturing leases without following federal laws designed to allow for public notice and comment periods. The magistrate judge did not vacate the leases, however, and directed the BLM to correct deficiencies (Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., No. 18-187, D. Idaho)....