For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior.
For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hard rock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching
Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, said Thursday he plans to introduce legislation to repeal the BLM rule using the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overturn regulations by a simple majority vote. “With this rule, President Biden is allowing federal bureaucrats to destroy our way of life,” Barrasso said in a statement. “It does seem to me this is a very top-down, Washington-centric approach that has kind of cut the legs out from the local people,” Republican Governor Mark Gordon told the Post last year. “Unfortunately, Wyoming finds itself imposed upon by these colonial forces of national environmental groups who are pushing an agenda onto Wyoming.”
For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hard rock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country. That could soon change under a far-reaching