United States Secretary of the Interior since 2021
Biden administration plans to tee up offshore wind across the nation’s coastlines
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Biden set to deny approval for mining company’s road through Alaskan wilderness: The Biden administration will deny federal approval to a metallurgical mining ...
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Stitt, Holt condemn hate in OKC bombing remembrance event: 'We must each be ambassadors of kindness'
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Big Oil suddenly likes Joe Biden and his 'pragmatic approach': The industry isn't getting everything it wants — but more than it had expected when Biden was ...
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Biden administration bars drilling in Colorado’s Thompson Divide landscape: The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado ...
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America's newest national park honors 'painful chapter' in history: Amache National Historic Site is now designated as the newest national park ...
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Interior's Deb Haaland announces $18M to ensure native seeds amid climate change - UPI.com
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Newest national park preserves history of WWII Japanese internment camp in Colorado
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An Eastern North Carolina attraction will be overhauled with money from bipartisan law
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Biden to sign executive order improving tribal access to federal funds: President Biden is set to sign an executive order Wednesday aimed at making it easier for ...
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Quick Glance: Biden to Sign Order for Simplifying Federal Funding for Native Americans
- President Joe Biden will sign an order during a tribal nations summit to make it easier for Native Americans to access federal funding and have more autonomy in its use.
- The order creates a central hub for Native American tribes to find and request federal funding, and urges federal agencies to ensure the funds are accessible and fair.
- The administration also plans to announce over 190 agreements allowing tribes to manage federal lands, waters, and resources, and a new study to better interpret and portray Native American history.
- New rules simplify requirements for museums and federal agencies to identify items for repatriation.
Biden administration announces 15 new renewable energy projects on public lands: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the advancement of 15 new renewable ...
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$10 billion renewable energy project paused over concerns for Native American historic sites
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How the Catawbas will spend $4.8 million in federal money: ‘Heal our land and river’
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Haaland announces 15 clean energy projects in the West - UPI.com: The Interior Department has announced 15 new renewable energy projects across the West ...
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No. 2 Interior official announces departure: Interior Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau, the No. 2 official at the department, will leave the Biden administration ...
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Colorado refines a different natural resource: Colorado needs to plug orphaned oil and gas wells, which add to the climate crisis. Businesses and the federal ...
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First lady Jill Biden learns about Menominee Nation's sustainable forestry: The first lady also attended a women's empowerment summit at the College of Menominee ...
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Opinion | Biden Freezes Alaskan Oil: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland relies on ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ as a legal justification to block drilling. No joke.
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History buffs touring Pennsylvania often visit Gettysburg and Valley Forge. But an often overlooked site that exposes a much less known and yet essential part ... Show more
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s charged mission of healing: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is the first Native person to oversee a department once charged with ...
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US Interior Secretary Haaland reflects on tenure and tradition amid policy challenges
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Paid articlePaid Biden administration provides greater flexibility to protect endangered species: The Biden administration is providing greater flexibility for the Fish and ...
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'Huge Win for Tribes' as US Supreme Court Preserves Indian Child Welfare Act
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Supreme Court upholds Native American adoption law : The Supreme Court upheld a landmark federal adoption law that seeks to keep Native American children with ...
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Quick Glance: US Supreme Court Confirms Preference for Native Americans in Adoption
- Barrett affirms Congress' broad power in rejecting challenges.
- The US Supreme Court dismissed a sweeping challenge to a 1978 law that gives preferential treatment to Native Americans in adopting and fostering American Indian children.
- By a 7-2 vote, the court declared that Congress has extensive authority over Native American affairs, rejecting claims that the Indian Child Welfare Act violates state authority under the Constitution.
Protest derails planned celebration of 20-year ban on oil drilling near Chaco national park
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Biden cabinet official Haaland visits Kansas as White House promotes economic record
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Biden orders 20-year ban on oil, gas drilling around tribal site in New Mexico: The action Friday by Secretary of the Interior Haaland is intended to protect ...
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Interior Dept. Announces 20-Year Halt on New Oil and Gas Leasing at Chaco Canyon: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Friday new oil and gas leases will not ...
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Biden administration bars oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Canyon: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced new protections Friday for New Mexico’s ...
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National Park board appoints first Native American member: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland reestablished the board with 15 new appointees—including a ...
oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2023/06/national-park-board-appoints-first-native-american-member.html
Haaland defends Willow, says U.S. won't end oil drilling: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department's approval of the contentious Willow oil project ...
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Interior Secretary Haaland criticized over 'difficult' choice on Willow project
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U.S. to restore more bison herds on tribal lands by tapping Indigenous knowledge: U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency will work to restore more ...
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Echoing Climate TikTok, Al Gore Says Biden OK of Willow Would Be 'Recklessly Irresponsible'
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Biden Proposes First Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Lease Sales: Clean energy advocates on Wednesday applauded an announcement from U.S. Interior Secretary Deb ...
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15 Native American tribes to receive $580 million in federal money for water rights settlement
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US moves to protect Minnesota wilderness from planned mine: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Biden administration moved Thursday to protect northeastern Minnesota's ...
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Rejecting Willow Drilling Project Should Be the No-Brainer of All Time: If you wanted an example of the reason we’re still losing the fight to slow the earth’s ...
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Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools: LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Pershlie Ami signed up to ...
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She will be joined by Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
5 Places That Used Racist Slur For A Native Woman Are Renamed: “Words matter," said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to lead a Cabinet ...
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Hundreds of places have new names after racist term for Native people erased from US lands
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US moves to protect Minnesota wilderness from planned mine: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed an order Thursday closing over 350 square miles of the Superior ...
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U.S. Interior Department names Elizabeth Klein to oversee offshore energy: The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday named Elizabeth Klein, a lawyer who worked in ...
reuters.com/world/us/us-interior-department-names-elizabeth-klein-oversee-offshore-energy-2023-01-10/
Vice President Kamala Harris coming to Arizona for clean energy event: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will accompany ...
azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/01/13/vice-president-kamala-harris-to-visit-arizona/69785117007/
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hears from Indian boarding school survivors in Arizona
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Two California towns were just renamed by the federal government because of this harmful word
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Klamath River dam removal plan draws cheers from dignitaries: U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined other leaders Thursday at a fish hatchery along the ...
oregonlive.com/environment/2022/12/klamath-river-dam-removal-plan-draws-cheers-from-dignitaries.html
Natural Resources Democrats seek Interior documents on bribery allegation: Two Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee are seeking documents from ...
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Northwest tribal leaders welcome Biden’s new commitments at Tribal Nations Summit
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Indigenous groups keep pushing for justice for victims of boarding school abuses: As officials hear from community, a school works to keep native language alive.
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The troubling trend for women Interior nominees: Predominantly male senators have set a higher bar for women than men nominated to lead the Interior Department.
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Interior secretary: `Unacceptable' to mine near famed swamp: SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A member of President Joe Biden's Cabinet is urging Georgia officials to ...
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Interior Secretary Haaland says U.S. is expanding Native American massacre site: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has announced an expansion of a National Park ...
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Navajo woman walks from Ariz. to D.C. to spotlight her missing aunt, other victims
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/13/seraphine-missing-murdered-indigenous-women/
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Being the First — and the Future: America's first Indigenous Cabinet member, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb ...
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Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools: MISSION, S.D. (AP) — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old ...
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior: Satellites Will Help Us Fight Climate Change: Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in ...
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The Sand Creek Massacre site will be expanded to preserve Native American tribes’ sacred land
cnn.com/2022/10/09/us/sand-creek-massacre-site-expansion-reaj/
Interior Secretary Haaland calls for integration of indigenous knowledge in fight against climate change at Spokane wildlife conference
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How we expunged a racist, sexist slur from hundreds of public lands : It's just a word. But words have power.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/remove-racial-slur-federal-land-native-american/
Sand Creek Massacre site to be expanded, according to Haaland: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced an expansion Wednesday of a National Park Service ...
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Haaland: US expanding Native American massacre site: The site is where U.S. Cavalry ambushed hundreds of Native Americans in 1864. More than 230 Cheyenne and ...
oregonlive.com/native-american-news/2022/10/haaland-us-expanding-native-american-massacre-site.html
Paid articlePaid Davids, Adkins and other Kansas candidates in final sprint for votes before Election Day
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Paid articlePaid Interior Department removes anti-Native slur from usage in federal place names: The Interior Department announced Thursday that it has completed the removal of a ...
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Derogatory term for Native women removed from WA creek, lake names: The U.S. Department of the Interior removed a slur used to describe Indigenous women from ...
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/derogatory-term-for-native-women-removed-from-wa-creek-lake-names/
Department of Interior Finally Rids 700 Federal Sites of Offensive Native Slur ‘Squaw’
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650 locations in US get new names to erase racist slurs: “We’re showing why representation matters and charting a path for an inclusive America ...
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US changes names of places with racist term for Native women: The changes announced Thursday capped an almost yearlong process that began after Interior ...
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US changes names of nearly 650 places with racist Native American women term: The U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a ...
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Interior grants $560 million across 24 states to plug more than 10,000 orphaned wells
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Biden administration announces $310M in funding for water reuse projects amid widespread drought
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Judge reinstates Obama-era coal-leasing ban: A federal judge on Friday revived a nationwide Obama-era ban on new coal leases that was tossed during the Trump ...
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Quick Glance: Judge reinstates Obama-era coal-sales prohibition on US lands
- U.S. District Judge Brian Morris' decision forces government officials to complete a new environmental evaluation before resuming coal sales from public lands.
- Almost half of the country's yearly coal production — 260 million tons last year — is mined by private corporations under lease on federal land, largely in Western states like Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado.
- According to government figures, the coal program brought in nearly $400 million in royalties and other payments to federal and state budgets in 2021.
- Montana and Wyoming officials intervened in the lawsuit on behalf of the federal government, arguing against restoring the moratorium.
Interior secretary, Ossoff visit Okefenokee as mining project advances: With a controversial plan to mine titanium near the edge of the Okefenokee National ...
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Feds scrub 'squaw' from dozens of place names in Michigan: The Interior Department followed through with removing the word 'squaw' from geographic features in ...
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Interior Department removes 'squaw' from names of 32 Michigan sites: The new names for the Michigan sites, mostly lakes, creeks and islands ...
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The word ‘squaw’ now banned from names of rivers, lakes and more across US: The Interior Department released a list of new names for over 600 geographic features ...
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