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A G.O.P. Plan to Sell Public Land Is Back. This Time, It’s Millions of Acres.

Senate Republicans want to sell the land to build more housing in the West, but the idea is contentious even within their own party.

© Russel Daniels for The New York Times

The proposal would require the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to identify and sell between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres.

Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.

© Louise Johns for The New York Times

The entrance to Bull Mountain mine near Billings, Mont., in 2022
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