Interior Department Eliminates Rule That Made Conservation a Use of Public Lands
Fish Creek through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska’s North Slope, on July 8, 2004. David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP The Department of the Interior repealed a Biden-era regulation on May 11 that had placed conservation on par with drilling, mining, and grazing on roughly