House Votes to Undo Biden Moves to Curb Fossil Fuel Production

Nov. 19, 2025, 2:06 AM UTC

The House on Tuesday passed three measures that would rescind Biden-era land use management decisions aimed at limiting fossil fuel energy development.

The GOP since the beginning of the year has used the Congressional Review Act to reverse key aspects of former President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda. President Donald Trump has pushed new policies to expand traditional fossil fuel energy production to bolster the US power grid.

Millions more acres of land would be available for oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s North Slope under the Senate-passed measure (S.J. Res. 80) the House approved Tuesday. It ...

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