BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution to overturn a Biden-era land management plan for North Dakota, siding with the state’s congressional delegation and energy industry leaders who say the policy threatens economic development.

The resolution, introduced under the Congressional Review Act, nullifies the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final Resource Management Plan (RMP) issued in January. The plan had restricted coal leasing on more than four million acres and limited oil and gas development on roughly 213,000 acres of federal land.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who co-sponsored the resolution with Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), said, “The thing that frustrates me the most is that the Bureau of Land Management, like so much of the federal bureaucracy, simp

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