for Vlad (and Xi).

"The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide, an area of mountaintops, foothills and valleys in the center of the state.

The administration said it would bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands for 20 years as part of an effort to preserve it for the future.

A federal assessment projects that the government’s actions will likely prevent 12 or 13 oil and gas wells from springing up in the area."