Category: Department of Interior

Manchin Won’t Back Biden’s Interior Department Pick

March 10, 2023
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said on March 10 that he will not advance Laura Daniel-Davis’ nomination to be the assistant secretary for lands and minerals management at the Interior Department. Manchin made the announcement in an op-ed published in the Houston Chronicle, where he stated he…

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Watchdog Says Top Interior Official Held Oil Company Interests as Agency Regulated Competitors

January 31, 2023
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The second highest-ranked official in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at the Department of the Interior (DOI) has been accused of failing to divest from her stakes in a major oil company whose competitors were regulated by her agency. On Monday, a nonprofit organization called Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed a complaint against…

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US Circuit Court Ruling Clears Biden Administration’s Executive Order Pausing New Oil and Gas Leases

August 18, 2022
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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, on Aug. 17, cleared the way for the Biden administration’s pause on new oil, gas leasing on federal lands and waters, issued in 2021. A lower U.S. district court in Louisiana previously ordered that the administration to cease its moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on…

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US Government Admits It Used Schools as Tool to Erase Culture, Seize Native American Land: Report

May 19, 2022
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Erasing culture, pulling children away from their parents, and disregarding the emotional needs of children. These tactics could be pulled from today’s headlines, but they are the tried-and-true education policies the United States has admitted to using for 150 years as a tool to force the assimilation of Native Americans, and specifically to acquire Indian…

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Interior Department Confirms 35 Staffers Have Died of COVID-19

August 7, 2021
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An Interior Department spokesperson has confirmed that 35 employees have, as of Friday, died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus. Melissa Schwartz, the department’s communications director, wrote in a tweet Friday that “we have lost another member of the agency’s family” since the head of the department, Sec. Deb Haaland, said in…

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