Interior Secretary Deb HaalandDeb HaalandOvernight Energy: Treasury creates hub to fight climate change through finance | Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez introduce ‘Green New Deal for Public Housing’ | Tomorrow’s energy economy demands reform at the Interior Department OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Interior says it isn’t immediately reinstating coal leasing moratorium despite revoking Trump order […]
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Interior head Haaland revokes Trump-era orders on energy
FILE – In this April 24, 2015 file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Environmentalists and Native American activists say the Biden administration’s review of the federal oil and gas leasing program should result in more protections for an area of northwestern New […]
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Deb Haaland Scraps A Slew Of Fossil Fuel-Friendly Trump Orders
With the stroke of a pen on Friday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland dismantled a sizable chunk of her predecessors’ legacies, revoking a dozen Trump-era secretarial orders that sought to boost fossil fuel and other extraction on public lands and waters. The move is part of the Biden administration’s broader push […]
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Haaland seeks to bolster environmental law targeted by Trump
Interior Secretary Deb HaalandDeb HaalandInterior Department to reconvene council on Native American issues Interior delays consideration of opening public Alaska lands to development Julia Letlow sworn in as House member after winning election to replace late husband MORE on Friday issued an order aimed at bolstering implementation of a key environmental […]
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Haaland meets with Utah politicians, tribes as Biden weighs monument changes
Interior Secretary Deb HaalandDeb HaalandIndigenous advocacy group launches campaign against new voting bills Biden nominates Interior deputy as department’s top lawyer Overnight Energy: Haaland making moves: Discusses public lands drilling, creates unit to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans MORE met with Utah politicians, tribal leaders and other stakeholders Wednesday […]
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Haaland Explores Restoration of Utah Monuments Trump Downsized
BLUFF, Utah—Ranchers, wildcatters, Native Americans and environmentalists are among the many looking to see how Interior Secretary Deb Haaland balances their competing interests over the vast tracts of federal lands she oversees. They will be watching closely Thursday, when the Laguna Pueblo tribe member and former New Mexico congresswoman tours […]
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Tribes talk priorities with ‘formidable guardian’ Haaland
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, center, talks with tribal members ahead of a round-table discussion among pueblo governors and U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The visit marked Haaland’s first to her home state after being […]
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Haaland on public lands drilling: Taxpayers deserve ‘a return on their investment’
Interior Secretary Deb HaalandDeb HaalandThe Hill’s Morning Report – Biden may find zero GOP support for jobs plan Haaland to create unit to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans Biden says Cabinet ‘looks like America’ at first meeting MORE said Friday that taxpayers deverve “a return on their investment” when […]
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Native Americans urge Deb Haaland to help tackle pollution in communities of color
As Native peoples and stewards of Mother Earth, we celebrate the recent confirmation of Interior Secretary Deb HaalandDeb Haaland Bald eagle population has quadrupled in last decade White House withdraws deputy Interior secretary amid reported pushback from Murkowski OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Obama marine monument […]
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is sure to enrage everyone. She should just embrace it.
The Department of the Interior has been nicknamed “the department of everything else.” Since so many secretaries have come from the American West, we Westerners understand where that nickname comes from. Try to think about all the agencies and bureaus contained within the Department of Interior, then grab a bottle […]
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland brings attention to unique Native garment
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Many noticed a unique piece of clothing when New Mexico‘s Deb Haaland’s swearing-in as Secretary of the Interior, a Native skirt specially made just for the day. A day full of firsts, mid-March former Representative Deb Haaland became the first-ever Native American in Cabinet. What made the moment […]
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Haaland sworn in wearing traditional Native American skirt, moccasins
Interior Secretary Deb HaalandDeb HaalandThe Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Forget about comity in Congress OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Native groups hope Haaland’s historic confirmation comes with tribal wins | EPA asks court to nix Trump rule limiting GHG regs | Green group asks regulators to block use of […]
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Deb Haaland confirmed as first Native American cabinet secretary
Late Monday evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) for the role of Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American to head a cabinet agency in U.S. history. She was confirmed on a 51-40 vote, per The Washington Post. A voice like mine has […]
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Senate confirms Haaland to lead Interior
The Senate on Monday voted to confirm Rep. Deb HaalandDeb HaalandThe Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Biden to hit road, tout COVID-19 relief law This week: Democrats eye next step after coronavirus relief bill win Democratic majority shrinks, but finds unity MORE (D-N.M.) to lead the Interior […]
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The Day – Haaland confirmed by Senate as first Native American to lead Interior Department
WASHINGTON – As thousands of Native Americans watched online, Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., was confirmed as secretary of the Interior Department by a 51-40 vote in the Senate, making her the first American Indian to lead an agency that manages a vast portfolio of federal land and the oil and […]
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Haaland OK’d at Interior, 1st Native American Cabinet head
FILE – In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., listens during the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Some Republican senators labeled Haaland “radical” over her calls to reduce dependence on […]
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Progressives celebrate historic Haaland vote
Progressives on Monday celebrated Deb HaalandDeb HaalandThe Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Biden to hit road, tout COVID-19 relief law This week: Democrats eye next step after coronavirus relief bill win Democratic majority shrinks, but finds unity MORE’s historic confirmation to lead the Interior Department after the Senate voted […]
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Deb Haaland Confirmed as Interior Secretary in First for Native American
WASHINGTON—The Senate confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland as President Biden’s interior secretary Monday, in a vote that for the first time will make a Native American a White House cabinet secretary. The Senate voted to confirm Ms. Haaland on a 51-40 vote, largely along party lines. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of […]
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Senator Calls Out Opposition To Deb Haaland: ‘A Woman Of Color Is Being Held To A Different Standard’
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) says biases drove Republican opposition to Rep. Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) confirmation as the 54th secretary of the Interior Department and that GOP colleagues are holding women of color to a different standard, an argument she will make in a speech Monday ahead of the vote. Haaland, a […]
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