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By Wisconsin Conservation Voters - Mar 15th, 2021 05:28 pm
MADISON – Wisconsin Conservation Voters and its 40,000-plus members and supporters are celebrating today’s U.S. Senate vote finalizing the historic confirmation of Congresswoman
Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior – making her the first Indigenous person to serve as a Cabinet Secretary.
“We congratulate Secretary Deb Haaland on her well-earned, historic nomination,” said Executive Director
Kerry Schumann. “The significance of this confirmation – an Indigenous woman leading the critical work of managing our shared public lands – is long overdue, but its importance cannot be overstated. Secretary Haaland will implement a bold agenda based on science, equity, and environmental justice. She will prioritize access to nature, tribal consultation, and responsible management of our public lands and resources for all people in this country. In Wisconsin, Secretary Haaland’
The Senate confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet department and the first to lead the federal agency that has wielded influence over the nation's tribes for nearly two centuries.
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• Mayor Ted Wheeler expressed his support Monday for the Portland Police Bureau s (PPB) latest technique to quell protester activity. He was referring to PPB s reinvigorated reliance on a tactic called kettling, in which officers corral and detain a large group of people under the presumption that they may be involved in criminal activity. Last Friday night, a group of at least 100 individuals were kettled by PPB officers during a march through Northwest Portland s Pearl District.
• The first kids have been vaccinated in a pediatric trial of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19. As I have
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