Mealey's (August 15, 2022, 2:14 PM EDT) -- DENVER — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and environmental groups on Aug. 11 reached a stipulated agreement filed in Colorado federal court under which the BLM will reconsider the eligibility of lands open to oil and gas leasing through hydraulic fracturing, and it will prepare a new environmental impact statement that will “inform the amendment process” for the resource management plan (RMP) pertaining to a region in Colorado that includes 3.1 million acres on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains....