( February 27, 2026, 12:52 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from Utah has introduced into the congressional record an opinion issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that has determined that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2025 resource management plan (RMP) for the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument is reviewable under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The move is a step toward revoking the RMP and possibly opening the area for hydraulic fracturing....