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Deb Haaland is Biden’s radical pick for Interior Secretary
By CFACT Ed, Gabriella Hoffman
|2020-12-17T20:53:32-05:00December 17th, 2020|Environment|Comments Off on Deb Haaland is Biden’s radical pick for Interior Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden’s likely pick for Interior Secretary is New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM).
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Haaland, first elected to Congress in 2018, was one of four contenders for the role besting three fellow New Mexicans: Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich along with former Obama Interior Deputy Secretary Michael Conner. Without a doubt, Haaland’s nomination to the post is historic. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American Interior Secretary in department history. But how does she stand on the issues? And if Republicans maintain control of the U.S. Senate, what’s the likelihood of her confirmation?
A last ditch-digging attempt at Arctic drilling
In the first week of January, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management intends to auction off drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a proposal which has been hotly contested for generations. The administration is moving forward in its final weeks despite the opposition of most Americans to drilling in the Arctic.
Opposition to Arctic drilling has expanded well beyond environmentalists, First Nations or everyday Alaskans. Every major US and Canadian bank has now come out against Arctic drilling; even insurance companies are stepping back from extreme oil extraction. These institutions’ withdrawal of support represents a new stage of responses to the climate crisis, and potentially, a step towards a just transition away from fossil fuels. Extreme oil extraction, whether in the Arctic or in Canadian tar sands, is increasingly being recognized as a dangerous bad investment.
President-elect Biden has said that tackling climate change, the environment and green energy are top priorities for his administration. And so far, his team appears to be a mix of some familiar faces and some not-so-familiar faces. John Yang spoke with Amy Harder, an energy and climate reporter for Axios, to learn more.
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Judy Woodruff:
President-elect Biden has said that tackling climate change, the environment and greener energy is a top priority of his administration.
And, today, he filled out the rest of the team that will be taking the lead on these issues.
The NewsHour s Yamiche Alcindor reports that New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland is Mr. Biden s pick to be interior secretary. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American to lead the department or to be in the Cabinet, and she would be overseeing a big piece of nation s natural resources, including tribal lands.
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