/tags/secretary-of-the-interior-deb-haaland Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland en-US Copyright Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:00:34 GMT /local-news/2024-10-11/pinyon-jay-lawsuit-delayed-protections Environmentalists are now threatening to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) after significant bureaucratic delays in determining whether the Pinyon Jay deserves increased habitat protections. Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:00:34 GMT /local-news/2024-10-11/pinyon-jay-lawsuit-delayed-protections Bryce Dix /local-news/2024-07-30/indian-schools-new-mexico-interior-report After years of investigations and a nationwide listening tour, the Department of the Interior released the second and final volume of a report into federal Indian boarding schools. Tue, 30 Jul 2024 22:53:41 GMT /local-news/2024-07-30/indian-schools-new-mexico-interior-report Alice Fordham /local-news/2024-05-10/interior-secretary-haaland-announces-60-million-to-help-water-conservation-along-the-rio-grande On Friday Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, announced a $60 million investment from the Biden administration for water conservation and drought resilience along the Rio Grande. Fri, 10 May 2024 23:54:21 GMT /local-news/2024-05-10/interior-secretary-haaland-announces-60-million-to-help-water-conservation-along-the-rio-grande Jeanette DeDios /local-news/2024-04-18/blm-withdraws-more-than-4-000-acres-of-sacred-lands-around-placitas-from-mineral-leasing The new rule by the Bureau of Land Management will protect land considered sacred by Pueblos — and used by wildlife — from development by gravel miners. Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:45:38 GMT /local-news/2024-04-18/blm-withdraws-more-than-4-000-acres-of-sacred-lands-around-placitas-from-mineral-leasing Alice Fordham /local-news/2023-10-04/tribes-at-odds-over-drilling-ban-around-ancient-chaco-canyon How the remote, ancient landscape became the center of a debate among Indigenous groups weighing the value of ancestral sites against the economic potential of their future. Thu, 05 Oct 2023 03:56:20 GMT /local-news/2023-10-04/tribes-at-odds-over-drilling-ban-around-ancient-chaco-canyon Alice Fordham /local-news/2022-12-14/proposal-for-oil-gas-man-camp-in-greater-chaco-sparks-concern-of-violence A proposal from the oil and gas industry to set up a 75-person “man camp” in the Greater Chaco area has advocates and environmentalists up in arms about the impacts it could have on the land and on rates of sexual violence in the region. Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:14:35 GMT /local-news/2022-12-14/proposal-for-oil-gas-man-camp-in-greater-chaco-sparks-concern-of-violence Bryce Dix /news/2021-04-16/our-voice-is-going-to-be-respected-biden-restores-native-american-affairs-council The Biden administration will restore the White House Council on Native American Affairs, an interagency initiative that coordinates federal services and… Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:41:03 GMT /news/2021-04-16/our-voice-is-going-to-be-respected-biden-restores-native-american-affairs-council /news/2021-04-07/in-her-first-official-trip-deb-haaland-travels-to-the-mountain-west Last month, Deb Haaland made history as the first Indigenous person ever confirmed by the Senate to serve in a president's cabinet. In her first official… Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:17:39 GMT /news/2021-04-07/in-her-first-official-trip-deb-haaland-travels-to-the-mountain-west Savannah Maher