The Latest Breaking News from Deb Haaland

The move comes as the Biden administration seeks to expand protections against oil and gas development on public lands.

The Biden administration canceled oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that Congress mandated in a 2017 law.

Executives with one of the largest wind and solar energy development companies in the world are gathering with federal officials on the dusty plains of New Mexico to mark the groundbreaking of what will be the largest renewable energy infrastructure project in the United States

June hunt in Alaska that killed 99 bears and five wolves prompts activists to renew their call for crackdown on ‘rogue states’

A planned offshore wind farm moved a step closer to construction Tuesday with the Department of the Interior announcing it has approved the project

The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon monument – home to several Native tribes – will be protected from uranium mining

The proclamation signed in the area by the president protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and blocks new uranium mine claims.

Roberts Temple Church, at 40th and State streets, will preserve the site where Till’s body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Western tribes are making a last ditch effort to thwart a large lithium mine in a federal appeals court.

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U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made history a few times in her political career, becoming one of the first Native American women to serve in Congress and as the first to hold the reins of the Interior Department