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Gov. John Hickenlooper had two points he wanted to get across as he questioned New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland on her nomination for interior secretary Tuesday: protect public lands and keep the Bureau of Land Management headquarters in Colorado. It was never likely to happen. Both senators support the congresswoman from New Mexico, who is a supporter of public lands positions favorable with fellow Democrats, particularly President Joe Biden. On the other side, Republicans are happy to try to box in Bennet and Hickenlooper to decide between their party in Washington and the West Slope of Colorado...

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  Share Source: AP Photo/Russell Contreras At the confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee Debbie Haaland on Tuesday, ranking member Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) listed off the thousands of jobs that President Biden is about to kill with his decision to hit pause on new oil and natural gas leases on federal lands. The senator noted that the temporary ban is estimated to cost 62,000 jobs in Haaland's home state of New Mexico, 33,000 in his state of Wyoming, as well as several more thousand in the states represented by other panelists on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.   ...

What will Utah’s energy landscape look like under Biden? Amy Joi O'Donoghue © Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Workers drill for blasting at the Bronco Utah Mine near Emery on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. SALT LAKE CITY — Under President-elect Joe Biden, will Utah’s air get cleaner, its public lands stay more pristine and its waterways be filled with fewer contaminants? Popular Searches It could happen, but it won’t evolve overnight and could come with significant costs — and opportunities — for Utah due to Biden’s climate agenda that is not only ambitious, but e...

ADVERTISEMENT The sitting U.S. president has been named the pollster’s most-admired man in 60 out of 74 years, including all eight years of Obama’s presidency and every year of George W. Bush’s presidency except for 2008. Trump had finished second to Obama in 2017 and 2018. The 2020 rankings are the 10th time Trump has ranked among the top 10. Before entering the political sphere, he made the list in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 2011. Biden made only his second appearance in the top 10 after making the list in 2018. Among Republicans surveyed, 48 percent of respondents named Trump as their m...