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FILE - Turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Farm, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I. The Biden administration is preparing to announce plans for a new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind energy production, with up to a dozen lease sales anticipated beginning this year and continuing through 2028. The plan was to be announced Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in New Orleans by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Biden administration is announcing plans for up to 12 lease sales for offshore wind energy

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Playing hardball: National Park Service browbeats baseball team over trademark infringement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the SunZia transmission line project in Corona, N.M. on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Haaland said the Bureau of Land Management consistently sought collaboration to develop the best possible route for the line. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP) **FILE**

Biden cancels all oil, gas drilling leases in Alaskan Arctic wildlife refuge

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Michon Eben, historic preservation officer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, looks on near a massacre site at Sentinel Rock on April 25, 2023, outside of Orovada, Nev. A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden's clean energy agenda. Eben said the agency's actions fell far short of genuine consultation. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Tribal activists see ‘green colonialism’ in Nevada mine Biden hails as key to clean energy

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A hiker sits on a ledge above Pueblo Bonito, the largest archeological site at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, in northwestern New Mexico, on Aug. 28, 2021. 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 June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

Biden orders 20-year ban on oil, gas drilling to protect New Mexico tribal sites

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens to criticism from Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as she testifies on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland dogged by ethics questions over daughter’s anti-drilling activism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

An entrance sign is shown at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Eads, Colo., on Dec. 27, 2019. This quiet piece of land tucked away in rural southeastern Colorado seeks to honor the 230 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members who were slaughtered by the U.S. Army in 1864. It was one of worst mass murders in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Haaland: U.S. expanding Native American massacre site

By James Anderson - Associated Press

Tracie Revis, left, a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and Seth Clark, mayor pro-tem of Macon, stand at the approach to the Earth Lodge, where Native Americans held council meetings for 1,000 years until their forced removal in the 1820s, on Aug. 22, 2022, in Macon, Ga. Revis and Clark are co-directors of an initiative to bring 50 miles of the Ocmulgee River under federal protection as a national park. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia

By Michael Warren - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Haaland speaks during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the budget, Wednesday, July 13, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland breaks her leg hiking in a national park

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is displayed under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 1, 2021. The U.S. Interior Department is expected to release a report Wednesday, May 11, 2022, that it says will begin to uncover the truth about the federal government's past oversight of Native American boarding schools. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

U.S. grappling with Native American boarding school history

By Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland waves after speaking to a crowd during a totem pole delivery ceremony by Native American tribal leaders and Indigenous activists, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 29, 2021. Secretary Haaland vowed on her first day on the job to ensure Native American tribes have opportunities to speak with her and the agencies she oversees. Native American and Alaska Native groups are seeing change under Haaland but some remain frustrated with the pace of action. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Native American leaders seek more from U.S. consultations

By Susan Montoya Bryan and Felicia Fonseca - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created around the park. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Navajo fight Biden administration’s plan to fence off drilling around New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This July 16, 2004, photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The Biden administration said Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, that federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-backed state laws made it much easier to kill the predators. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella) **FILE***

Senators urge emergency protections for wolves in US West

By Mattew Brown - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington. U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is a married woman. Melissa Schwartz, an Interior Department spokeswoman, confirmed Haaland and longtime partner Skip Sayre wed Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in New Mexico.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Bureau of Land Management moving back to D.C., reversing Trump-era decision

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, speaks during a news conference after Haaland's visit to talk about federal solutions to ease the effects of the drought at the offices of Denver Water Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Denver. Haaland will make stops in two cities on Colorado's Western Slope as part of her trip to assess the effects of the drought on the Centennial State. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

‘I didn’t nominate her’: Haaland distances herself from Biden pick Tracy Stone-Manning

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, right, stands with U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., while touring the Grand Junction Air Center complex, a multi-purpose wildland fire management and operation center, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Grand Junction, Colo. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)

Boebert, Colorado Democrats urge Haaland to keep BLM headquarters in Grand Junction

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, Jeannie Hovland, the deputy assistant secretary for Native American Affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, poses with a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women mask, in Anchorage, Alaska, while attending the opening of a Lady Justice Task Force cold case office in Anchorage, which will investigate missing and murdered Indigenous women. From the nation’s capitol to Indigenous communities across the American Southwest, top government officials, family members and advocates are gathering Wednesday, May 5, 2021, as part of a call to action to address the ongoing problem of violence against Indigenous women and children. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Vigils, rallies mark day of awareness for Indigenous victims

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

This April 30, 2021 image shows state Rep. Melanie Stansbury at a news conference about erasing a backlog in untested rape evidence kits in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stansbury, a Democrat, is among the candidates vying for an open congressional seat in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Candidates clash in New Mexico congressional election debate

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland looks on during a news conference following a visit to Bears Ears National Monument Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Blanding, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Deb Haaland brings back Obama-era ‘war on coal’ leasing ban

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Nambe Pueblo Gov. Phillip Perez, left, hands U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland a formal letter from the All Pueblo Council of Governors celebrating Haaland's appointment to lead the federal agency during a round-table discussion at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Tribes talk priorities with ‘formidable guardian’ Haaland

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press