US EditionRepublicans Move to Lift Drilling and Mining Restrictions in Western States
House Republicans reversed Biden-era restrictions to promote fossil fuel and mining jobs on federal lands in Western states, affecting millions of acres, officials said.
- On Wednesday, House Republicans repealed Biden-era land management plans limiting development in Alaska, Montana and North Dakota under the Congressional Review Act; the Republican-majority Senate must still approve the measure.
- Republicans framed the move as clearing the way for President Donald Trump's plans to expand mining and drilling by removing Biden-era limits aimed at protecting the greater sage grouse and reducing emissions.
- On Thursday the Bureau of Land Management awarded a coal lease at the Freedom Mine near Beulah, North Dakota, which Coteau Property Companies bought for $106,000, while a Congressional repeal could enable pending coal sales beneath public lands.
- In Alaska, Republicans said repealing the plan would ease drilling barriers in the central Yukon region and aid a proposed LNG project, while a consortium of 40 federally recognized tribes warned it risks salmon, caribou and ground-dwelling birds' habitats.
- Wednesday's votes were notable because they marked the first use of the Congressional Review Act to overturn a land use plan, following Republicans' earlier 2 million acres proposal and a Tuesday land agency plan to expand mining in Western states with greater sage grouse populations.
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Republicans move to lift drilling and mining restrictions in Montana, other Western states
BILLINGS — Republican lawmakers in Congress are clearing the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to expand mining and drilling on public lands by moving to eliminate energy development limits in several Western states. This story also appeared in Associated Press House Republicans on Wednesday night voted largely along party lines to repeal land management plans adopted in the closing days of former President Joe Biden’…
Republicans in the U.S. Congress are clearing the way for President Donald Trump's plans to expand mining and drilling on public land with the removal of energy development limits in several Western states.
House Republicans vote to undo Biden land rules limiting fossil fuel and mining
House Republicans moved to undo the Biden administration’s land management plan for several states, arguing that it jeopardizes energy reliability by restricting fossil fuel and mining leases. Republicans voted on three measures on Wednesday to disapprove the Biden administration’s Resource Management Plan Amendments for lands in Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska. The Bureau of Land... The post House Republicans vote to undo Biden land rules lim…
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