( April 2, 2025, 10:38 AM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A federal magistrate judge in California on April 1 granted environmental groups leave to filed a second amended complaint in their lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) related to allegations that the agency violated federal law when it approved permits for drilling on public land in the San Joaquin Valley of California, saying that the declarations in the proposed second amended complaint contain “credible allegations” of respiratory distress to the plaintiffs as a result of the air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley that will be “exacerbated by BLM’s unlawful approval of the APDs at issue.”...