Overturns a 2024 decision closing a Wyoming planning area to new federal coal leasing

§1What it does

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This law uses the Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress cancel recent federal agency rules, to overturn a November 2024 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision that made no federal coal available for future leasing in the area covered by its Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming.^2,3 As a result, the BLM must follow the area's 2015 resource management plan as it stood before the 2024 change, which makes coal available for leasing.^2,3 The BLM had made the change after a court ruled that, to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, it had to study the climate effects of coal leasing in the area, including options to limit or stop leasing.^2,3

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