Friday, December 18, 2020

Deb Haaland named Secretary of the Interior designate

Many stories have been written about this in the past day or so, but I'll just highlight this one from the Washington Post.  Haaland is a Native American and second-term U..S. Congresswoman from New Mexico. Juliet Eilperin, Dino Grandoni and Brady Dennis report; here is an excerpt from the story:

President-elect Joe Biden chose Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) Thursday to serve as the first Native American Cabinet secretary and head the Interior Department, a historic pick that marks a turning point for the U.S. government’s relationship with the nation’s Indigenous peoples.

The story then quotes Haaland's Tweet from last night: 
A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior.  ... I’ll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land.

The story includes this biographical material about Haaland:

Born in Arizona to a Native American mother who served in the Navy and a Norwegian American father who was an active-duty Marine, Haaland bounced between 13 public schools as the family changed military bases. At 15, she worked at a bakery, and later attended law school with the help of student loans and food stamps, occasionally experiencing homelessness as a single mother.

The headline for this Washington Post story links Haaland's appointment, and that of Michael S. Regan as EPA chief, to environmental justice: "With historic picks, Biden puts environmental justice front and center."  

Speaking of environmental justice, this Politico story suggests that Biden's choice of Regan for EPA head--he is an African American man who has served in the equivalent role in North Carolina--has displaced the woman who many considered a favorite for the job:  Mary Nichols, former head of California's Air Resources Board.  The reason, according to this report, is that Nichols was not adequately attuned to racial/ethnic disadvantage--that is, not sufficiently attuned to environmental injustice as having a disparate impact on people of color.  

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