Utah Republican Rep. John Curtis is leading a coalition of GOP lawmakers in the latest bid to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s contentious public lands rule.
Curtis’ H.J. Res. 188, filed Thursday, seeks to use the Congressional Review Act to nix an administrative rule or policy that advances the Biden administration’s conservation priorities. The resolution was one of several introduced this week.
The Curtis measure targets BLM’s conservation and landscape health rule, which places conservation on par with other uses of bureau lands, such as energy development, mining and livestock grazing. Republicans have blasted the rule as an attempt to block energy and mining in the name of fighting climate change.
The resolution follows the House Appropriations Committee’s approval last week of a fiscal 2025 Interior-Environment spending bill that includes a rider blocking the administration’s plans.
