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US Interior secretary revokes Trump-era energy policies to aid renewables transition Email The Interior Secretary revoked a string of Trump-era policies that sought to increase the deployment of fossil fuel power plants on public land. Image: Department of Interior. The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has established a new Climate Task Force to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy generation across the country and revoked several Trump administration policies promoting fossil fuels on public land. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has issued two secretarial o...

(The Center Square) – U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday revoked a dozen of the Trump administration’s secretarial orders that prioritized energy development on federal lands. Haaland signed a secretarial order revoking the past orders and also signed a secretarial order establishing a Climate Task Force that will seek to advance renewable energy development and prioritize climate change in the department’s decision-making processes. Haaland said in a statement the pair of orders will align the department with the Biden administration’s “whole-of-government...

Haaland seeks to bolster environmental law targeted by Trump Rachel Frazin © Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images deb haaland secretary of the interior native american women first history joe biden administration cabinet senate us confirmation laguna pueblo congress Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday issued an order aimed at bolstering implementation of a key environmental law, seeking to work around rollbacks from the former Trump administration. Haaland's order states that Interior bureaus and offices should not apply 2020 changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (...

(The Center Square) – U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday revoked a dozen of the Trump administration’s secretarial orders that prioritized energy development on federal lands. Haaland signed a secretarial order revoking the past orders and also signed a secretarial order establishing a Climate Task Force that will seek to advance renewable energy development and prioritize climate change in the department’s decision-making processes. Haaland said in a statement the pair of orders will align the department with the Biden administration’s “whole-of-government...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland took sweeping action Friday to "prioritize action on climate change," including reinstating the ban on federal coal leasing that was part of the Obama administration's contentious "war on coal."