JULY 9, 2025 |
Photo – Governor Mark Gordon – Bigfoot99 file photo
Wyoming Governor Gordon signaled support on Tuesday for the Bureau of Land Management’s announcement of its intent to amend the Buffalo Resource Management Plan (RMP).
In 2024, while under the radical leadership of Tracy Stone Manning, the BLM shifted its agenda and prioritized conservation over its founding principle of multiple use of public lands. As part of the shift under the Biden Administration, the BLM selected the “No Leasing” alternative in its RMP amendment for the Powder River Basin.
The agency made a course correction this week, one that Wyoming’s governor celebrated. In a statement yesterday, Governor Gordon said, “President Trump and Secretary Burgum have made good on their promises to take action to undo the damage the Biden Administration did to the Powder River Basin. Early on, I spoke with them both, and explained Wyoming’s frustration that the very industries that built our schools and powered our economy were being ignored and directly harmed by an ideologically motivated, anti-fossil fuel agenda.”
In his statement, Governor Gordon said coal plays a critical role in America’s efforts to achieve energy dominance. The governor went on to observe that the Biden Administration’s restrictions on coal from Wyoming were “legally dubious, arbitrary, and would result in less reliable energy.”
The governor’s angry reaction last year was plain. Wyoming’s top elected official said, quote, “Joe Biden’s partisan, vindictive and politically motivated war on America’s abundant, cheap, efficient and consistent energy sources advances an agenda that only kills careers and retards the national economy.”
Wyoming’s governor said he supports the course correction under the Trump Administration.
