The Senate confirmed Deb Haaland as the Secretary of the Interior in a 51-40 vote on Monday, Indian Country Today reported. A member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo, she is the first-ever Native American Cabinet secretary. Haaland will be in charge of managing roughly one-fifth of the land in the United States, according to NPR, and will play a major role in addressing the climate crisis. The extraction of fossil fuels from public lands accounts for about 25 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, NPR noted.
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