Mealey's ( August 16, 2022, 1:28 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and environmental groups on Aug. 12 agreed to a settlement under which the BLM will perform an environmental assessment (EA) and will order a hydraulic fracturing operator to abandon 11 currently idle fracking wells near the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California....