{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/senate-passes-lummis-legislation-undoing-bidens-buffalo-rmpa/", "Senate Passes Lummis Legislation Undoing Biden\u2019s Buffalo RMPA", "2025-11-20", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "Cynthia M. Lummis", "L000571", "www.lummis.senate.gov", "lummis", "https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, the U.S. Senate voted to pass Senator Lummis\u2019 legislation undoing the Biden administration\u2019s Buffalo Field Office Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA), which aimed to completely end future coal mining in Wyoming\u2019s Powder River Basin.\n\n\u201cThe passage of this legislation through both the Senate and the House is great news for Wyoming and our workers in the Powder River Basin,\u201d said Senator Cynthia Lummis. \u201cWyoming energy has powered this country for decades and we won\u2019t allow far-left Biden administration bureaucrats to unilaterally destroy entire industries and communities just because they wanted to please their environmental donor base. I\u2019m glad that we are sending this bill to President Trump so that he can sign it and help secure America\u2019s energy future.\u201d\n\n\u201cToday, the Senate voted to support Wyoming\u2019s energy workers and coal communities. We reversed another one of the many bad Joe Biden runaway regulations,\u201d said Senator John Barrasso. \u201cThis outrageous rule cut off access to one of our strongest resources \u2013 Wyoming coal. I\u2019m proud of our delegation for fighting until we reversed this job-killing rule for good. Together with the Trump administration we\u2019re unleashing Wyoming energy and getting America back on track.\u201d\n\n\u201cThanks to Senators Lummis and Barrasso\u2019s strong leadership in the Senate, H.J. Res. 130 is headed to the President\u2019s desk, and we are one step closer to repealing the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous Buffalo RMPA,\u201d said Congresswoman Harriet Hageman. \u201cWyoming coal powers this country, and once this misguided, ideologically driven policy is overturned, we can better meet our nation\u2019s growing energy demands.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Biden BLM twisted the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) to target coal operations in the Powder River Basin \u2013 including the Buffalo RMP in Wyoming \u2013 in a way that flies in the face of what the law was meant to do.\n\nThey cut out local input and implemented artificial restrictions on coal production under the cover of conservation.\n\nThis legislation now goes to President Trump\u2019s desk where he will sign it, officially terminating the Biden administration\u2019s Buffalo RMPA.\n\nSenator Lummis introduced and led this successful effort in the U.S. Senate, alongside Senator Barrasso. Representative Hageman led the effort in the U.S. House.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/senate-passes-lummis-legislation-undoing-bidens-buffalo-rmpa/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0174219496548176, "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"}