A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".

What this measure contains

This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on November 20, 2024, which amended the 2015 resource management plan (RMP) for the Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming to make no federal coal available for future leasing. Thus, the joint resolution requires the BLM to follow the 2015 RMP as it was before it was amended in 2024 and make coal available for leasing. By way of background, the BLM developed the amendment to the plan in response to Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management. In that case, the court held that the BLM must evaluate the climate impacts of federal coal leasing in the Buffalo Field Office and include alternatives to limit or stop coal leasing in the evaluation in order to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. After conducting the evaluation, the BLM amended the RMP and made BLM-managed coal resources in the Buffalo Field Office planning area unavailable for future leasing.

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• Placed on Calendar Senate · Official document ↗· Nov 18, 2025
• Introduced in Senate · Official document ↗· Oct 8, 2025

Legislative path

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1. Introduced in Senate
2. Placed on Calendar Senate

Companion measure: H.J.Res. 130. A companion follows its own path; its votes are not combined with this one.

Decision stages

1. Nov 19, 2025 · Senate

   Senate motion to proceed on Placed on Calendar Senate: Motion to Proceed Agreed to

   51 aye · 47 no · 2 not voting · Source roll call

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Aye yea or aye · No nay or no · Present · NV not voting · Changed reversed on advancing the measure

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Legislative history

1. Oct 8, 2025

   Introduced in Senate

2. Oct 8, 2025

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

3. Nov 18, 2025

   Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).

4. Nov 18, 2025

   Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 270.

5. Nov 19, 2025

   Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 621.

6. Nov 19, 2025

   Measure laid before Senate by motion.

7. Nov 20, 2025

   Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8395)

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