Joint Resolution Passed in the Senate on November 20, 2025 · 51 Yea, 43 Nay, 5 Not Voting
Question: On the Joint Resolution H.J.Res. 130
In plain English: This resolution would cancel a Bureau of Land Management rule that stopped future federal coal leasing in Wyoming. It would instead require coal to be made available for leasing, as it was before the rule change.
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 Organi…