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☆ Yellen's Las Vegas stop shows Bidenomics can be a tough sell
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Andrea Shalal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLAS VEGAS, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Daemein Hargrove, 21, recently dropped plans for a four-year college degree to sign up for an apprenticeship program in Las Vegas that he says has given him higher pay, good medical benefits and a pension. But he's also shouldering gas costs of $500 a month as he commutes to a massive solar site 45 minutes outside of Las Vegas. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's visit Monday to the Las Vegas training center where Hargrove and nearly 700 other apprentices are being paid to work and learn new skills raises some questions about Biden's approach. Yellen's trip to Las Vegas won praise from union leaders, but drew scant public or local media attention. Casey Harrison, a political reporter at the Las Vegas Sun, said the coverage reflected a lack of demand but also inadequate preparation by the administration.

Persons: Janet Yellen, Leah Millis, Daemein Hargrove, Joe Biden's, Hargrove, They're, he's, He's, Biden, Republican Donald Trump, Janet Yellen's, Casey Harrison, Harrison, it's, we've, Gina Raimondo, Deb Haaland, Yellen, what's, Barack Obama's, Rachelle Warren, Warren, It's, Andrea Shalal, Heather Timmons, Alistair Bell Organizations: Treasury, Development Finance, Strategic, International Studies, REUTERS, LAS VEGAS, U.S, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Republican, Democrats, Las Vegas, NBC, Las, Sun, U.S . Treasury, Reuters, Biden, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Las Vegas, United States, Vegas, Nevada

☆ How Native American police are fighting the crisis of missing people
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Andrew Hay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

These gaps have led Native American police Reuters met with to take matters into their own hands, some forming their own missing units. Driven by decades of Native American activism, data showing the scale of the crisis, and the appointment of the United States' first ever Native American cabinet secretary Deb Haaland, the issue of missing indigenous people entered the U.S. mainstream in the last five years. MORE AT RISKFactors ranging from poverty and a history of colonial oppression make Native American people disproportionately at risk of going missing. REUTERS/Adria Malcolm“Very few tribes have the funds and staff available to make MMIWR a priority,” said Darlene Gomez, an Albuquerque lawyer who represents families in 17 missing Native American cases. Families of victims and their lawyers say police routinely blame missing Native American women for their own disappearance due to factors such as substance abuse — and it’s not just outsiders.

Persons: Kathleen Lucero, didn’t, Lucero, ”, Isleta, “, Victor Rodriguez, Deb Haaland, Bryan Newland, ” Newland, Adria Malcolm “, Darlene Gomez, Daryl Noon, “ We've, ” Noon, Raul Torrez, Torrez, Zachariah Shorty, Vangie Randall, Shorty, Randall, Raul Bujanda, Bujanda, it’s, Jamie Yazzie, Yazzie's, Tre James, Noon, Michael Henderson, Andrew Hay, Donna Bryson, Claudia Parsons Organizations: Reuters, American, of Indian Affairs, Bay, Indian, Isleta Police Department, REUTERS, New, HOME, BIA, Unit, FBI, Navajo, Thomson Locations: ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M, Manzano, New Mexico, American, U.S, Pueblo, Albuquerque, Oklahoma, United States, Isleta Pueblo, Navajo, Arizona, Utah, Native, Albuquerque’s Bernalillo, Kirtland , New Mexico, Mexico, Washington

☆ US bans new oil and gas leasing around New Mexico cultural site
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Tribes, conservationists and state officials have long called on the federal government to ban drilling in the area. Structures in the area date back thousands of years, and the park is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency. It is aligned with his goal to conserve at least 30% of federal lands and waters by 2030. But, the Interior Department ban on new leasing on federal lands around Chaco will last for just 20 years and does not extend to private, state or tribal lands. Oil and gas industry groups have opposed withdrawing the lands around Chaco for leasing.

Persons: Read, Biden, Joe Biden, Biden's, Deb Haaland, Nichola Groom, Kim Coghill Organizations: Chaco Culture, Historic, UNESCO, United Nations, Interior Department, New, Congressional, Navajo Nation, U.S . Bureau of Land Management, Thomson Locations: Pueblo, Chaco, New Mexico, U.S, New Mexican, American, Laguna

☆ U.S. considers new land swap deal in Alaska wildlife refuge
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Interior Department will review the environmental impacts of a possible land swap deal that would allow a new road to cut through an Alaska wildlife refuge, it said on Wednesday. In a notice published in the Federal Register, Interior said it would consider an exchange that would allow for a road corridor for noncommercial use through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and the Izembek Wilderness Area. Environmentalists have said a road would destroy valuable habitat for birds along Kinzarof Lagoon, and would set a dangerous precedent for other wildlife refuges. The deal set by former President Donald Trump's administration was controversial because it left open the door to commercial use of the road. Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service will accept public comments on the analysis for 30 days.

☆ Enraged congressional Republicans call Biden's reelection bid a sign of the apocalypse. But some of his former GOP colleagues say America can simply do better.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

incumbent President Joe Biden is officially running for reelection in 2024 to "finish the job." Some House and Senate Republicans cast a second Biden term as certain doom. "Finishing the job would be truly catastrophic," Ted Cruz said, riffing on Biden's reelection theme. Cruz delved even deeper into the bleakness, predicting that a second Biden administration would usher in more inflation, crime, illegal crossings at the southern border and embolden global adversaries including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. And surely, we can do better than that," Wicker told Insider at the US Capitol.

☆ Biden Interior proposes leasing public lands for conservation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Biden administration this week proposed a new rule that would allow the Interior Department to lease public lands for conservation, a process similar to how the agency delivers leases for oil and gas development and mining projects. The Interior on Thursday said establishing conservation leases would help states and companies offset the environmental impact of their development plans. Issuing conservation leases would generate revenue and make landscapes more resilient to climate change, Interior officials said. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in a statement said the country's public lands are under mounting pressure amid unprecedented climate-related disasters like wildfires and drought. "We appreciate the meaningful conservation measures in this new rule that have the promise to advance biodiversity, climate resilience and equity on our public lands," O'Shea said.

☆ The Biden administration is offering to pay Colorado River farmers to let fields go dry during a devastating drought. They're worried it's just the first step in losing their way of life.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Ethan Dodd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Biden administration is paying Colorado River farmers and ranchers to let their fields run dry. Climate change has made the Colorado River the dryest it's been in more than a thousand years. Knowing they have to do something, Grand Valley farmers and ranchers want better compensation to make fallowing worth their while. At this better price they received enough applications from agricultural producers to cover the thousand acres Grand Valley offered, he said. Are you a farmer, rancher, or resident of the Colorado River basin concerned about water conservation?

☆ U.S. withdraws Trump-era land deal in Alaska wildlife refuge
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Nichola Groom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland addresses the Tribal Nations Summit from an auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S. November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstMarch 14 (Reuters) - The Biden administration said on Tuesday it rescinded a land swap deal struck by former President Donald Trump's interior secretary that would have allowed a new road to cut through an Alaska wildlife refuge. In a statement, the Interior Department said Secretary Deb Haaland withdrew the 2019 land exchange deal between the agency and the Alaska native King Cove Corporation, but would be open to examining other proposals to replace it. Environmentalists have said a road would destroy valuable habitat for birds along Kinzarof Lagoon, and would set a dangerous precedent for other wildlife refuges. The deal set by Trump's Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in 2019 was particularly controversial because it left open the door to commercial use of the road.

☆ Biden Interior proposes first offshore wind lease sale in Gulf of Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico as part of a larger plan to install offshore wind sites along the country's coasts. The proposed lease sale is part of the Interior Department's plan to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by the end of the decade, which would be enough to power 10 million homes. The announcement also follows the agency's approval of the first two commercial scale offshore wind projects in the U.S. The proposed lease areas could collectively power nearly 1.3 million homes with clean energy, the Interior said. Last year, the administration released a five-year offshore drilling plan allowing some lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.

☆ Biden’s Green-Energy Mineral Lockup
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Biden Administration is heavily subsidizing electric vehicles, but at the same time it is blocking mineral projects needed to produce them. Another example of this head-scratching contradiction came Thursday when Interior Secretary Deb Haaland walled off much of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest from mining. Minnesota’s Duluth Complex has one of the world’s largest undeveloped mineral deposits, including copper, nickel and cobalt that are needed in vast quantities for EV batteries. Ms. Haaland is assuring the deposit stays undeveloped by signing an order withdrawing more than 225,000 acres in the Superior National Forest from mining for two decades.

☆ U.S. renames 5 sites that used racist slur for a Native woman
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it has given new names to five places that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman. The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, completing a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word “squaw” from geographic names across the country. She called the word “harmful.”Haaland, who took office in 2021, is the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency. In September, the Interior Department announced its final vote on proposals to change the names of nearly 650 sites that contained the word. The Interior Department ordered the renaming of places with derogatory terms for Black and Japanese people in 1962 and 1974, respectively.

☆ U.S. sets up office to oversee abandoned oil well cleanup
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells. The Orphaned Wells Program Office will be led by Kimbra Davis, who has worked at the Interior Department since 2009. Orphaned oil and gas wells are those that generally have been abandoned and are no longer producing. "The Department is standing up a new office to support states, tribes and federal land managers as they close and remediate orphaned oil and gas wells that pose environmental hazards to communities across the country," Haaland said in a statement. The number of abandoned U.S. wells has grown over the last decade, and many experts believe it will keep growing as fossil fuels are replaced with cleaner energy.

☆ European energy firms dominate landmark California offshore wind auction
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Nichola Groom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The auction began on Tuesday and ended Wednesday, the offshore wind industry's first chance to snag leases in waters off the U.S. West Coast. "Today’s lease sale is further proof that industry momentum -- including for floating offshore wind development -- is undeniable," U.S. Winners of the five leases were mainly divisions of European energy companies already developing projects in the U.S. offshore wind market. "The macroeconomic environment has hardened significantly over the last six to 12 months," said Alon Carmel, a partner at consultancy PA Consulting who advises offshore wind companies. About 100 megawatts of floating wind capacity is currently installed in the world compared with 50 gigawatts (GW) for conventional offshore wind.

☆ Biden Interior rule would limit methane leaks, gas flaring from public lands drilling
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The primary component of natural gas is methane, which is odorless when it comes directly out of the gas well. In addition to methane, natural gas typically contains other hydrocarbons such as ethane, propane, butane, and pentanes. The BLM's proposed rule comes after the Environmental Protection Agency said it would expand its 2021 methane rule to require drillers to identify and plug leaks at every well site across the country. Western and national conservation groups said the proposal marks a critical first step but should be strengthened to eliminate gas flaring. The BLM is accepting comments on the proposed rule for 60 days and a final rule is anticipated next year.

☆ U.S. warns western states it may impose Colorado River water cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Daniel Trotta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Oct 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. government warned on Friday that it may impose water supply cuts on California, Arizona and Nevada to protect the Colorado River and its two main reservoirs from overuse, drought and climate change. Besides protecting drinking water supplies, the proposed federal action might also preserve hydroelectric production at the country's two largest reservoirs. The bureau, part of the Department of Interior, had previously set a mid-August deadline for seven western states to negotiate their own reductions or possibly face mandatory cutbacks. The seven states operate under a 100-year-old compact distributing Colorado River water, but that agreement has come under increasing strain from the worst drought in 1,200 years, which has been exacerbated by climate change. A century ago, the compact assumed the river could provide 20 million acre-feet of water each year.

☆ U.S. to hold offshore wind power rights sale off California coast in December
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 18 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday said it would hold the first ever sale of offshore wind development rights off the coast of California on Dec. 6, a big step forward in expanding the nascent U.S. industry to Pacific waters. Previous federal offshore wind lease sales have all been for leases in the Atlantic Ocean. By 2035, Interior aims to have 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind capacity. The goal is aligned with the administration's other target for permitting 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. She said the department is "moving forward at the pace and scale required to help achieve the President's goals to make offshore wind energy, including floating offshore wind energy, a reality for the United States."

☆ Numiri istorice făcute de noul președinte al SUA, Joe Biden: prima femeie amerindian la Interne și primul bărbat de culoare în fruntea Agenției pentru Mediu
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-18 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

Președintele ales al SUA, Joe Biden, o va numi pe Deb Haaland, membră a Camerei Reprezentanților, ca secretar pe probleme interne, potrivit unei surse citate de Reuters. Biden urmează să-l numească și pe Michael Regan la conducerea Agenției naționale pentru Protecția Mediului (EPA), în speranța de a reforma abordarea SUA împotriva schimbărilor climatice. Primul american de culoare care se va ocupa de Protecția Mediului în SUADe asemenea, Joe Biden vrea să-l numească pe șeful autorității de protecție a mediului din Carolina de Nord drept liderul Agenției centrale a SUA pentru Protecția Mediului, potrivit unor surse citate de Reuters. Sursele citate de Reuters spun că Regan este în ultimele faze ale verificării făcute de echipa Biden. Dacă va fi confirmat, va fi primul bărbat de culoare care va conduce EPA, fiind un plus istoric pentru diversitatea administrației prezidențiale a Statelor Unite.

Persons: Joe Biden, Reuters, Biden, Michael Regan, Donald Trump, Biden . Organizations: Camerei, Congresul, Energie, Albă Locations: SUA, New Mexico, Congresul american, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Carolina de Nord, Statele Unite, Statelor Unite

After helping Joe Biden win a grueling election, progressives want a say in key policies, like environmental protections, social justice, and immigration reform. Still, there are plenty of progressives — such as Sunrise Movement founder Varshini Prakash — who are ready to keep the pressure on the Biden administration from the outside. Against that backdrop, progressive lawmakers, media heavyweights and outside groups involved in everything from the environment to criminal justice reform say they will be watching Biden's every move. New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has given her stamp of approval to Biden's climate appointees: "I think Biden's climate appointments actually represent progress — real progress," she said. Here's Insider's list of 32 of the top progressives primed to help the Biden administration — or cause it headaches.

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