Oppose Wyoming Regulatory Program
Wyoming Regulatory Program
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and EnforcementFederal Register 2026-06892 ↗

The groups on this fight
4 groups work Wyoming
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Sierra Club
Works Wyoming: its Wyoming Chapter mobilized public comments ahead of the December 18, 2025 deadline against the administration's rollback of Red Desert ACEC protections in the Rock Springs RMP amendment..
- Western Watersheds Project
Works Wyoming: co-plaintiff in the federal appeal challenging BLM's plan to cut the Adobe Town herd management area roughly in half as part of the largest wild horse removal ever attempted in the Wyoming checkerboard..
- Wyoming Outdoor Council
Works Wyoming: leading opposition to BLM's 2025 reopening of the just-finalized Rock Springs RMP, with program director Alec Underwood arguing the Golden Triangle and Big Sandy Foothills are too special to lease and develop..
- Wyoming Wilderness Association
Works Wyoming: organized citizen outings at Skull Rim to build opposition to BLM lease parcels around Adobe Town Rim and has pressed the agency to shrink lease sales touching the WSA and surrounding lands with wilderness characteristics..
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Wyoming's coal mining regulatory program is proposing a rule change that'd create a new category of reclamation bond estimate adjustments that wouldn't trigger the formal bond release process. It was submitted to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement after approval by Wyoming's Environmental Quality Council and Governor in fall 2025. This affects coal mine operators and regulators in Wyoming by potentially streamlining how financial assurance for land reclamation is calculated and adjusted.
In the agency’s own words
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing receipt of a proposed regulatory amendment to the Wyoming coal program (Wyoming program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Wyoming submitted this proposed amendment to us, on its own initiative, following the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council's (EQC) and Wyoming Governor's approval of the proposed changes to its Land Quality Division (LQD)--Coal Rules on September 17, 2025, and October 29, 2025, respectively. Through this amendment, Wyoming is proposing to recognize a specific type of re…
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From More Than Just ParksIt’s referred to as Unit 346 in the Twin Mountain II Timber Sale. On the ground, it’s some of the most spectacular old growth we’ve ever witnessed, and it’s marked for clearcutting.
To document and do our part to save America’s greatest old growth forest
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