Lawmakers target Biden-era limits on mining, energy production

The United States is creeping closer to opening its own lands for energy and mineral development aimed at decreasing the nation’s reliance on hostile countries.

The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved two House-initiated measures and one sent over by the U.S. Senate to overturn actions taken under the Biden administration that closed federal lands to development. The measures reversed U.S. Bureau of Land Management decisions restricting development in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, the Alaska Coastal Plain, and the National Petroleum Reserve — Alaska.

“When the Biden administration locked up millions of acres of resource-rich lands throughout Alaska’s North Slope, it undermined America’s energy independence and hurt Native communities that rely on the revenue stemming from ene