Topic: federal land

Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM), President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

Haaland takes on racist names

Adam Mahoney - Grist
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"An ecological abomination"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash. aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. Royal Dutch Shell hopes to use the rig for exploratory drilling during the summer open-water season in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast, if it can get the permits. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com via AP, File) (AP)

Reps debated drilling on federal land

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
(AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

zinke silent on rally

Nancy Levine - Alternet