A House Republican bill to nullify the Biden administration’s move to protect swaths of federal land from drilling is reigniting a dispute over energy development winners and losers.
The debate is dividing political allies and spotlighting the broader conflict between conservation, energy production and economic growth for impoverished areas that Democrats are struggling to navigate going into the 2024 election.
At stake is roughly 336,000 acres of land in northwestern New Mexico sacred to multiple tribes and more than 20,000 individual Native Americans who stand to lose revenue from potential energy development. The area around the Chaco Culture National Historical ...
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