President Joe Biden’s historic pick to manage the nation’s public lands and natural resources promised to strike a balance between fossil fuel and renewable energy development during her confirmation hearing, Tuesday. Numerous Republican Senators focused their questioning on Biden’s oil and gas leasing “ban” on federal lands, citing projected economic and job losses from the executive action. Haaland’s nomination comes on the heels of a broad grassroots campaign, spurred by environmental and tribal interests who advocated for her to lead the Interior Department — an agency that has historically been used to suppress and disenfranchise Native Americans.
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