JUNE 12, 2025

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In Washington, D.C., U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday applauded plans by the Trump Administration to repeal climate rules put into place by the Biden administration. The Biden era schemes were meant to put power plants out of business.

In a statement, Republican Senator Barrasso said, “America is an energy superpower. Under Republican leadership, we are acting like it.”

The senate leader continued, “The Biden administration’s outrageous climate rules would have shut down power plants and increased energy costs for families across the country. Repealing these rules will take the handcuffs off of Wyoming’s energy workers so they can unleash affordable, reliable American energy. Thanks to President Trump, the war on American energy is officially over.”

In April 2024, the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules targeting American power plants and designed to cripple the energy industry. The rules would have required existing coal-burning power plants, and future plants burning natural gas, to begin capturing their carbon dioxide in the 2030s.

Later Wednesday, the upturning of the Biden era rules, continued when Lee Zeldin, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, proposed repealing Clean Power Plan Version 2.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon welcomed the news. The governor applauded the repeal of Biden’s Clean Power Plan. “The lopsided and misguided policies of the Biden administration have already wreaked enough havoc on our nation’s power supply and delayed our progress providing the beautiful clean coal President Donald Trump recognizes as essential to having a reliable, affordable and dispatchable energy supply for our nation.”

The governor encouraged the EPA director to “proceed with all due urgency.” The EPA has cut $20 billion in Biden-era grant funding since Donald Trump took office and named Lee Zeldin director of the agency.

In the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Senator Barrasso questioned U.S. Energy Secretary Doug Burgum. The senator contrasted the sharp differences between the Biden and Trump administration’s stances toward energy.

Wyoming Senator John Barrasso began his questioning by asking Energy Secretary Burgum about leasing and permitting plans for energy development projects. The night-and-day difference between the two presidential administrations was apparent immediately, especially in terms of the speed and efficiency in permitting new development.

Projects that took more than a year during the Biden administration now take two months to process.

Senator Barrasso also asked about the upcoming revision to the proposed Rock Springs management plan. The Bureau of Land Management announced last week that the controversial plan developed during the Biden Administration in opposition to residents of Sweetwater County will be undergoing changes in the next few months.

Senator Barrasso described the Biden plan for Sweetwater County, which was finished during his final few months in office, as “punishing to the people of Wyoming.” The Energy Secretary talked about the changes to the radical Democrat plan underway now.

As federal officials prepare to rewrite the controversial Rock Springs plan to manage 3.6 million acres of land. A study from the University of Wyoming calculated the Biden plan would have cost the Cowboy State at least $245 million in lost revenue over four years.

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