Interior secretary nominee Deb Haaland said on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s pause on new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters won’t be a “permanent thing,” an apparent concession to Republicans that would break from the president’s campaign’s promises.
“It’s a pause,” Haaland said in the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “It’s not going to be a permanent thing where we are restricting all these things from something.”
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