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This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on November 20, 2024, which amended the 2015 resource management plan (RMP) for the Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming to make no federal coal available for future leasing. Thus, the joint resolution requires the BLM to follow the 2015 RMP as it was before it was amended in 2024 and make coal available for leasing. By way of background, the BLM developed the amendment to the plan in response to Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management. In that case, the court held that the BLM must evaluate the climate impacts of federal coal leasing in the Buffalo Field Office and include alternatives to limit or stop coal leasing in the evaluation in order to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. After conducting the evaluation, the BLM amended the RMP and made BLM-managed coal resources in the Buffalo Field Office planning area unavailable for future leasing.
Introduced
Oct 8, 2025
Last Action
Nov 20, 2025
Session
119th Congress
Sponsors
1 primary · 1 co
Passage Probability
3% — Very Low
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by motion.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 621.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 270.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Upgrade to ProIndefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.