Congresswoman Harriet Hageman is voting in favor of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2025 – a bill that is extremely favorable to the needs of Wyomingites. Four amendments offered by Representative Hageman were included in the final bill, as well as language to delist the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bear.
Rep. Hageman says, “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:
- Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing its proposed Western Solar Plan.
- Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan in Wyoming.
- Prohibits the EPA from establishing or operating the Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
- Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the proposed Resource Management Plans by the BLM’s Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming and the Miles City Field Office in Montana
- In addition, delisting of the GYE Grizzly was included within the original bill.
Other key provisions of the Interior Appropriations Act include:
- Preventing any funding for the housing of illegal migrants on National Park Service land.
- Requiring the Secretary to issue a minimum of four oil and gas lease sales in; Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nevada, Alaska, and any other state where there is land available for leasing according to the Mineral Leasing Act.
- No funds may be used to regulate the 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 the 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 the “social cost of carbon.”
- Eliminating the EPA’s emissions standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles
- Eliminating Gets the interagency working group on the social cost of carbon
