PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN NOMINATES DEB HAALAND, A NATIVE AMERICAN AS INTERIOR SECRETARY

Highlights

• The United States President-elect Joe Biden nominated congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary and Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary

• U.S. President-elect said “This brilliant, tested, trailblazing team will be ready on day one to confront the existential threat of climate change with a unified national response rooted in science and equity.”<....