Haaland on drilling lease moratorium: 'It's not going to be a permanent thing'

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Interior Secretary nominee Deb Haaland said on Wednesday that President Biden's pause on new oil and gas leasing is a temporary measure and won't be a "permanent thing."

"This pause...it's just that, it's a pause, it's not going to be a permanent thing where we're saying we're restricting all these lands from something," Haaland said in response to a question on the moratorium from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

The White House last month put a temporary pause without a set end date on granting new leases for publicly owned lands and waters for oil and gas drilling.

The Interior Department has continued to issue new permits on public lands that are already leased, though it instituted a temporary elevated review process, and it has also not stopped current drilling activity.

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Republicans sharply question Haaland at second day of confirmation hearing


Rep. Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden's nominee to be Interior Secretary, defended her record during Senate confirmation hearings as Republicans grilled her over past statements and painted her as partisan and liberal.

The Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico, who would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary if confirmed by the Senate, pledged to work in service of the Biden administration during the first day of the hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday. But Republicans on the panel expressed concern over her nomination and described her views on public land use and fossil fuels as radical.

During the second day of hearings, Haaland argued that her role as interior secretary would be very different from her role as an elected member of the House of Representatives.

"The role of a congresswoman in one district in the country is much different than the role of a secretary who is fighting and working for every single American and all of our public lands across the country. Those are two different things, I recognize that," Haaland said.

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[notinkansas]

1. Ummmm - whose view is radical?

"Republicans on the panel expressed concern over her nomination and described her views on public land use and fossil fuels as radical. "

There's a reason they are called public lands. Not corporate lands.