One of President-elect Joe Biden’s most aggressive campaign promises was to ban new oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters to combat climate change.

The person Biden selected to implement that policy, his nominee for interior secretary, Rep. Deb Haaland, hails from New Mexico, the state with the nation’s most oil production on federal lands.

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