The BLM is required to comply with a multiple use mandate, ensuring that these combination of uses meet current and future needs of the American people. In its waning days, The Biden Administration issued an RMP amendment for the Buffalo Field Office, which pursued the no new leasing alternative, pulling 481,000 acres of America's largest coal reserves and resources offline. making 48 billion short tons of coal unavailable, and ending leasing in the Powder River Basin. Such a decision cannot be considered a legitimate or legal RMP pursuant to Flip my and neither does it align with Congress's Multiple Use mandate. (01:36–01:50)
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Asserts the Biden Administration's RMP amendment stopped new coal leasing on 481,000 acres.
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