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Jun 28 2023
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$16M to go toward Hawaiian forest bird conservation
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday announced that nearly $16 million in federal funding has been committed to the prevention of the imminent extinction of Hawaiian forest birds. Read more U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday announced that nearly $16 million in federal funding has been committed to the prevention of the imminent extinction of Hawaiian forest
Honolulu Star-AdvertiserOct 06 2023
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Not all tribes agree with drilling ban around New Mexico's Chaco Canyon
Native American communities in the Southwest are divided over new federal protections for land some tribes consider sacred.
This summer, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced new protections for an extraordinary archaeological site in New Mexico. The department put a 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, forbidding drilling for oil and natural gas. Many
NPR (Online News)Jun 27 2023
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‘A national treasure’: Biden administration commits $16M to Hawaiian bird conservation efforts
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Biden-Harris Administration will dedicate $16 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act as part of an initiative to save Native Hawaiian birds from extinction, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced on Tuesday. Haaland, who is the first Native American to hold a cabinet secretary position, was teary eyed as she gave
Hawaii News NowJan 16 2024
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Wichita City Council postpones controversial campaign finance vote
It was a hot topic at the Tuesday morning meeting. About a dozen people came out, talking to the council about their thoughts on if businesses and LLC's should be able to donate money to Wichita candidate's campaigns. "A lot of the things that the city council votes on has a direct impact on businesses. You can not have a thriving city if you don't have a business," said one of the people
KAKEJun 02 2023
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Biden administration bars oil and gas drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Canyon
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday announced new protections for New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park, barring oil and gas development for 20 years within a 10-mile radius of the area. The announcement follows what the department said was an extensive period of consultation between tribal nations and Haaland, the nation’s first Senate-confirmed Indigenous Cabinet secretary
The HillJun 11 2023
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Native American activists for and against drilling outside Chaco Canyon clash, derailing official visit
Native American activists verbally clashed outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday, derailing a visit by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who was there to celebrate a 20-year buffer around a World Heritage Site in northwest New Mexico. Haaland’s trip to Chaco on Sunday was canceled when a group of Navajo landowners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration’s
Albuquerque JournalJun 03 2023
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Biden Admin Bans Oil and Gas Drilling Near New Mexico Indigenous Site for 20 Years
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on June 2 revealed her department is withdrawing more than 336,000 acres of public land around Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico from oil and gas drilling for 20 years, building on an announcement from President Joe Biden in November 2021. “Today marks an important step in fulfilling President Biden’s commitments to Indian Country by protecting
NTDSep 29 2023
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Biden OK’s Limited Offshore Drilling, Relenting on Campaign Promise
The Biden administration plans to schedule three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years, a reversal of the president’s campaign promise to stop all new offshore drilling under his administration.
The Interior Department, which oversees oil leases, said the sales are necessary because of last year’s clean-energy legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 02 2023
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Biden to enforce ban on oil, gas drilling to protect tribal sites around New Mexico's Chaco
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.
The action taken by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in the nation’s No. 2 oil-producing state was announced Friday. It is intended to protect cultural and historic
Stamford AdvocateMar 14 2023
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Interior secretary withdraws land exchange but signals support for road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Tuesday signaled her support for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge that has been at the center of a decades-long battle between the largely Indigenous people of King Cove, who say it will provide lifesaving access to a Cold Bay runway, and environmental groups who say a road will harm the refuge. But at the same time, Haaland announced the
Anchorage Daily News