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Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., is sworn in during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior secretary, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

Deb Haaland, Interior pick, backs down on ‘Republicans don’t believe in science’ tweet at hearing

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this April 24, 2015, photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. Oil and gas development infused $2.8 billion into New Mexico coffers during the 2020 fiscal year and marked its second-highest total revenue ever reported despite a global price war and plummeting demand amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

Oil rigs relocate from New Mexico to Texas over Biden’s permitting freeze

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this March 5, 2020, photo Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., Native American Caucus co-chair, speaks to reporters about the 2020 Census on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Haaland as interior secretary. The historic pick would make her the first Native American to lead the powerful federal agency that has wielded influence over the nation's tribes for generations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

American Indian leaders cheer Deb Haaland pick as ‘monumental step forward’

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The Department of the Interior has approved an oil and gas leasing program within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is home to polar bears, caribou and other wildlife. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt signed the Record of Decision, which will determine where oil and gas leasing will take place in the refuge’s coastal plain. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

Interior approves oil-and-gas leasing program for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

North Dakota tribe sues over ruling giving minerals to state

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010, file photo, then-Secretary of Natural Resources-designate Doug Domenech speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va. A senior Trump administration official misused his office for private gain by capitalizing on his government connections to help get a family member hired at the Environmental Protection Agency, investigators said. The Interior Department's Inspector General found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech reached out to a senior EPA official in person and later by email in 2017 to advocate for the unnamed relative when that person was seeking a job at the agency. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Probe: Top US official misused office to get son-in-law job

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Visitors to Cades Cove make their way around the 11-mile loop Saturday, May 9, 2020 on the first day of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park reopening.(Scott Keller/The Daily Times via AP)

National parks begin reopening over objections of Democrats, environmentalists

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Judge: US not unreasonably delaying virus relief for tribes

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

A sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. is part of the memorial "Landmark for Peace" commemorating the site where Robert Kennedy delivered his words on the night of King's assassination in Indianapolis, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. The park where Kennedy called for peace and unity just hours after the assassination of King is being designated a National Historic Site. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Saluting African American History Month at the Department of the Interior

By David L. Bernhardt

FILE - In this March 28, 2019 file photo, David Bernhardt speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Internal investigators at the Interior Department say they have launched another ethics probe involving top officials at the agency. The April 23 announcement comes a week after news that the same watchdog office was investigating ethics allegations against the agency’s newly confirmed chief, Bernhardt. Spokeswoman Nancy DiPaolo of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General confirmed that an investigation had begun but declined comment on how many senior officials at the agency were now under ethics reviews. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Watchdogs open 2nd ethics probe of top Interior officials

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Lawmakers push back against Interior’s proposed FOIA changes

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

Bee Bites Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How providing for the rusty patched bee comes at the expense of humans

By Paul Driessen

FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Washington, as Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt listens. Trump says he's nominating Bernhardt, a Washington veteran with lobbying ties to U.S. energy companies, to lead the Interior Department. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump to name acting Interior secretary to lead department

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Interior proposal to limit records requests draws challenge

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

US officials take action to protect Alaska whistleblower

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Feds issue approval for tribes’ proposed Connecticut casino

Associated Press

FILE- In this March 27, 2017, file photo, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., addresses business leaders during a New England Council luncheon in Boston. Warren is slated to deliver the commencement address at Boston’s Wheelock College on Friday, May 19. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Elizabeth Warren aids Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Taunton, Massachusetts casino bid

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

2 areas off Massachusetts available for offshore wind energy

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2017 file photo Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks on the Trump Administration's energy policy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Zinke wants to move more Interior Department employees out of Washington and into the field, closer to the public lands and resources they manage, saying that will lead to improved, decentralized decision-making. More than 90 percent of the department's employees already work outside the Washington area, and some retired department employees say the agency already has a well-established decentralized decision-making process. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik,File)

Ex-interior officials: Zinke’s proposed overhaul unnecessary

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

In this Feb. 9, 2018, file photo, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks to reporters at a conservation announcement at the Western Conservation and Hunting Expo in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) **FILE**

US lands agency makeover would diminish Washington’s power

By MATTHEW BROWN and DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press