Congress used a special procedure to cancel a 2024 government decision that had limited oil and gas drilling to just 400,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a large area of protected federal land, while setting aside roughly 1.2 million acres from leasing to protect wildlife and other uses. By scrapping that 2024 decision, this resolution reverts things to an earlier 2020 rule that made the entire 1.6-million-acre area open to oil and gas companies for leasing and drilling. In practice, this means more of the refuge's land becomes available for energy companies to bid on and potentially develop, rather than being off-limits for conservation purposes.