The settlement was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco and must be approved by a judge.

At issue are more than 6,000 miles of corridors for power lines; oil, natural-gas and hydrogen pipelines; and other energy-distribution systems that were carved out by the Bush administration as part of the 2005 Energy Policy Act. The corridors were finalized in 2008, and environmentalists sued in 2009 over concerns that more than half of the corridors passed through sensitive areas from Washington south to New Mexico. Colorado’s San Miguel County was also among the plaintiffs. MORE …