NE Wyoming News

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted in favor of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2025. The bill includes four amendments offered by Representative Hageman and language to delist the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bear.

Rep. Hageman stated, “The Interior Appropriations Act passed by the House of Representatives today is a huge victory for Wyoming, and for America. Three of my top priorities; Delisting the GYE Grizzly, and blocking the BLM from implementing their destructive resource management plans in Rock Springs and Buffalo, were incorporated in this bill. With its passage we are ensuring that the federal government cannot stop us from using our land and the resources on it, and we are putting the state in control of species management."

“Also included in this bill are amendments that I offered to stop the BLM from finalizing a solar plan that would have severely and negatively impacted our trona industry, and to block the creation of a duplicative ‘Office of Agricultural and Rural Affairs’ with the EPA – an agency that has failed our state."

“With the passage of the Interior Appropriations Act, Republicans in Congress have taken much needed action to stop the extreme agenda of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”

Background:

Included in the Interior Appropriations Act were four amendments offered by Rep. Hageman that:

- Prohibit the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing its proposed Western Solar Plan.

- Prohibit the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan in Wyoming.

- Prohibit the EPA from establishing or operating the Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

- Prohibit the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing proposed Resource Management Plans by BLM's Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming and Miles City Field Office in Montana.

In addition to these amendments, delisting of the GYE Grizzly was included within the original bill.

Other key provisions include:

- Preventing any funding for housing illegal migrants on National Park Service land.

- Requiring a minimum of four oil and gas lease sales in states such as Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana among others according to Mineral Leasing Act.

- No funds may be used to regulate lead content in ammunition or fish tackle.

- No funds may be used to prevent hunting or fishing on federal lands.

- Rescinding President Biden’s Environmental Justice executive orders.

- Blocking funding for American Climate Corps.

- No funding for President Biden’s Executive Orders on Climate Change.

- No funding for natural asset valuations.

- No funds may be used to incorporate “social cost of carbon.”

- Eliminating EPA’s emissions standards for light-duty vehicles.

Contact: Chris Berardi Sr., Advisor/Communications Director