Senate Votes to Repeal Biden-Era Plan to Stop Coal Leasing in Wyoming
Next up is Alaska.
***Update by Mary at 2:55 PM ET
Leslie wrote about the House passing legislation to repeal a Biden-era plan that prevented coal leasing in Buffalo, WY.
The Senate just passed the legislation. It heads to President Donald Trump. Leslie’s writing below has all the details!
51-43: Senate along party lines passed legislation to repeal a Biden-era Bureau of Land Management plan preventing future coal leasing in Buffalo, Wyoming area. House passed the joint disapproval resolution 214-212 on Tuesday and it now heads to President Trump, who plans to sign… https://t.co/ilmRFX0kav pic.twitter.com/8WmVm6IAbG
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) November 20, 2025
***Leslie’s original report
Last week, the Trump administration announced that it would be moving to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska, reversing the eco-activist and racialist policies enacted by Biden’s team that throttled the development of America’s energy resources.
The move reverses actions taken during the Biden administration to restrict development in half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, 23 million acres of federal land in the North Slope. Despite having “petroleum” in its name, the expanse is some of the last remaining pristine wilderness in the country and contains some of the most important wildlife habitat in the Arctic.
The administration said in June that it planned to open the reserve to drilling and mining; Thursday’s announcement was the final step. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said it would “unlock Alaska’s energy potential, create jobs for North Slope communities and strengthen American energy security.”
It was the latest in a series of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to expand fossil fuel production in the United States. Last month, the government finalized plans to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling. In the coming days, the Interior Department is also expected to propose opening vast new stretches of federal waters to oil and gas development, including areas off the coast of California.
This week, the House of Representatives voted to overturn environmental restrictions on drilling and mining in both Alaska and Wyoming.
House Republicans advanced three resolutions of congressional disapproval in a series of votes Tuesday afternoon, starting with a 214-212 vote to pass a resolution that would undo restrictions blocking further coal leasing in Buffalo, Wyoming. One Republican voted against the resolution.
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) sponsored H.J. Res. 130, reversing a rule established by the Biden administration’s Bureau of Land Management. The rule determines which areas under the BLM’s Buffalo Field Office are eligible for additional coal leasing and which are not.
The rule would prohibit new coal leasing in the 800,000 acres of surface lands and 4.7 million acres of subsurface federal mineral estate in Campbell, Johnson, and Sheridan Counties in north-central Wyoming. The administration at the time said its decision was intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, the resolution would overturn the rule as part of the administration’s effort to bolster the coal and other fossil fuel industries, while stymying clean energy sources.
House votes to cancel Biden drilling and mining restrictions in Alaska and Wyoming https://t.co/EYzdCcHmL6
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 19, 2025
In addition to the resolution impacting Wyoming, a second resolution terminated the Biden administration’s management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPR-A), which had blocked fossil fuel development on 11 million acres that were closed to oil and gas leasing. The third resolution reverses restrictions on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Coastal Plain in Alaska. Congress originally authorized drilling in 2017, but the Biden administration suspended or canceled most of the leases.
Interestingly, three Democrats voted to scrap the Biden-era drilling restrictions in Alaska.
The bill, overwhelmingly backed by Republicans, also got support from three Democrats: Representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, and Representative Jim Costa of California.
The Trump administration previously said that the restrictions were preventing Alaska from unlocking its energy potential. https://t.co/D52VCPNHck
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 19, 2025
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Comments
SPR refill time?
No. If the Trump administration fills up what Biden* drained for political purposes, then the Communists will raid it again when their “green energy” policies or foreign policy screwups send gas prices soaring.
Besides: the Communists have assured us that fossil fuels are killing billions of people every day, or something.
Trump is already beginning to refill the SPR. Here is a story from last week on his buying 1 Million barrels to begin doing it.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/refilling-strategic-petroleum-reserve-begins
use the leftists face as a fracking implement
Well
I’m all for it if it’s done protecting the wildlife/ surrounding areas
We have plenty of oil in
West Texas that hasn’t come close to reaching its peak
I believe this is all part of the AI push for energy. Climate Change by the Left for decades has made most states having pushes in Wind and Solar, but neither are good for power production. Natural Gas, Nuclear, Hydro, Oil, and Coal are the best for power production. All will require more energy production in various areas in various states.
The problems we have with power production everywhere is transportation of energy in various forms. In the USA refineries are being shut down or have been damaged and more need to be built.
So, the coal fields will be open until the houses of congress change hands again.
And/or the presidency.
If the leasing restriction is a BLM policy then why can’t the current BLM just reverse it? That would have as much power as a House Resolution.
Black Lives Matter should have no say in US energy policy. 🙂