Biden administration moves to make conservation an equal to industry on US lands
The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that's meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties.
Officials pushed past strong opposition from private industry and Republican governors to adopt the proposal.
The rule from the 's — which oversees more than 380,000 square miles (990,000 square kilometers) of
