House passes bill to up Montana coal mining on BLM land

The first Trump administration failed in its attempt to open more federal lands in Montana to resource extraction. Now, during Trump’s second term, Republicans are using Congressional action to avoid similar failure for good.

On Wednesday, on basically party-line votes, the House of Representatives passed three joint resolutions to negate three Resource Management Plans that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management finalized within the past year: those associated with the Miles City, North Dakota and Central Yukon, Alaska, offices. All three joint resolutions were introduced in mid-July.

Republicans used the 1996 Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress a limited amount of time - usually 60 legislative days - to disapprove rules recently issued by federal agencies. If Congress passes the resolutions, the law prevents agencies from issuing new rules that are “substantially the same.”

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