President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a resolution overturning a Biden-era land management plan that had halted new federal coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, reopening a long-running national debate over the future of coal, climate policy and Western energy communities.

Trump signed H.J. Res. 130 on Dec. 11, using the Congressional Review Act to repeal the Buffalo Resource Management Plan Amendment adopted under the Biden administration. That amendment directed the Bureau of Land Management’s Buffalo Field Office to adopt a “no new leasing” approach for federal coal — a move supporters said aligned with national climate goals and shifting energy markets.

With the resolution now law, the BLM must return to its 2015 resource management plan, restoring the option for future

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