( August 11, 2025, 8:16 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-nine members of the U.S. Congress have sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and the acting director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), urging the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) not to rescind the BLM’s 2024 rule that governs the protection of the National Petroleum Reserve-A (NPR-A), saying that repealing the rule “would not only be inconsistent with the law but would risk irreversible harm to the Western Arctic’s climate, wildlife, and communities.”...