Interior Secretary-designate Deb Haaland downplayed her past opposition to fracking during a heated confirmation hearing Tuesday, as she sought to reassure senators worried she would clamp down on fossil fuel development.
Deb Haaland’s assurances during her nomination hearing appeared to provide little comfort to Senate Republicans, who argued that the Democratic lawmaker’s criticism of fracking, support for pipeline protesters and endorsement of the Green New Deal make her unfit for a job that includes overseeing energy development on federal land.
(Bloomberg) Interior Secretary-designate Deb Haaland pledged to “strike the right balance” in managing hundreds of millions of acres of federal land during a confirmation hearing Tuesday, as she sought to reassure senators worried she would clamp down on fossil fuel development.