The Senate approved legislation Thursday to strike down a Biden-era land use plan for broad swaths of central Alaska, after killing similar plans in Montana and North Dakota earlier this week.
In a series of party-line votes, Republicans rejected Democratic arguments against using the Congressional Review Act to nullify the resource management plans. The legislation passed the House in recent weeks and is now on its way to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it.
“Resource Management Plans are a simple idea,” said Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) during floor remarks.
“Every decade or two, public land managers look at a region as a whole and figure out how to balance all the competing different uses of public land across that landscape,” including recreation, grazing, historic preservation, and oil and gas production, said Heinrich.
