North Dakota Challenges Biden-Era Plan Limiting Oil Development

North Dakota said a land management plan finalized under Biden administration unlawfully curbs energy development in a suit filed Tuesday.

The Bureau of Land Management ignored the objections of the state and revised a decades-old resource management plan in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, according to a complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of North Dakota.

All of the plan alternatives in the agency’s final environmental impact statement “were designed to dramatically restrict the future development of federal mineral resources across the entire State of North ...