Wyoming congressional delegation wants to override BLM coal lease ban

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The Trump administration has issued sweeping orders to federal agencies to remove regulatory hurdles and encourage more coal leasing and coal use. Now, Congress is acting to employ a little-used tool to override the Bureau of Land Management and rewrite or install new coal- and mining-friendly public land management plans throughout the West, including one in northeast Wyoming.

Wyoming’s all-Republican congressional delegation introduced a joint resolution Wednesday to employ the Congressional Review Act to essentially invalidate the BLM’s Biden-era supplemental environmental impact statement updating the Buffalo Field Office Resource Management P