The Trump administration said Wednesday it wants to get rid of a Biden-era rule that elevated environmental conservation as a way to use public lands.
Scrubbing that rule would make it easier for energy developers to extract oil and gas from the 245 million acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, furthering President Donald Trump’s domestic energy agenda.
Former President Joe Biden’s rule, finalized last year, put land conservation on the same level as uses like energy development, …