{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-wy-delegation-blasts-blm-wyoming-coal-ban/", "WY Delegation Blasts BLM Wyoming Coal Ban", "2024-05-16", "2024", "2024-05", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., blasted the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) and proposed amendment to its Buffalo Field Office land use plan.\n\nIn the plan, the BLM bans future coal leasing in Wyoming\u2019s Powder River Basin. This impacts 12 of Wyoming\u2019s active coal mines and will put 48 billion short-tons of BLM-administered federal coal off limits for mining.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden continues to wage war on Wyoming\u2019s coal communities and families,\u201d said Senator Barrasso. \u201cThis short-sighted plan will kill future coal leases in Wyoming\u2019s Powder River Basin \u2013 the most energy-rich area in the country. This will kill jobs and could cost Wyoming hundreds of millions of dollars used to pay for public schools, roads, and other essential services in our communities. Cutting off access to our strongest resources surrenders America\u2019s greatest economic advantages \u2013 to continue producing affordable, abundant, and reliable American energy.\u201d\n\n\u201cI am horrified to see the Biden administration\u2019s latest assault on our nation\u2019s domestic energy production,\u201d said Senator Lummis. \u201cWyoming has been targeted left and right by rule after rule handed down by this administration as it works to cater to the extremists within the Democratic Party. The Cowboy State produces some of the cleanest and best coal in the world. This RMP will push our country to rely on foreign adversaries for energy needs at a time when our grid is pushed to the brim and Wyoming coal is needed now more than ever to power our nation and the world. I will work with my colleagues every step of the way to prevent this RMP from going into effect.\u201d\n\n\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s war on the West continues, this time by enacting an RMP that will destroy the Wyoming coal industry,\u201d said Representative Hageman. \u201cThis decision to eviscerate Wyoming\u2019s coal production will impact every American\u2019s access to affordable and reliable energy, and only benefits the despots and dictators that this administration now relies on to meet our energy needs, while further weakening our economy and national security. At the same time, it will result in the need to increase coal production in countries with poor environmental and labor standards, thereby causing even more world-wide pollution \u2013 the total opposite of what this failed administration claims to be trying to accomplish. The Biden Administration\u2019s war on affordable and reliable energy won\u2019t end until we end his presidency.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:12:30Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-wy-delegation-blasts-blm-wyoming-coal-ban/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5482120215892792, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}