Rep. Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of the interior, refused to answer basic questions about energy and fossil fuels on public lands.
Haaland had previously campaigned on eliminating oil and gas production in New Mexico and Biden has pledged to eliminate drilling on public lands, yet the nominee played dumb when faced with elementary questions on these issues.
Rather than responding to basic questions and acknowledging the economic devastation that banning or restricting fossil fuels on public lands would entail, Haaland repeated that she has not been "Briefed" on "That specific issue."
Haaland refused to answer the question, saying merely that the issue would be "Important" if she were to be confirmed.
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Haaland refused to tell Hoeven whether or not she would expect imports of foreign oil to go up if America stopped drilling on federal lands, and she even acted as though she had no idea whether U.S. oil production is safer than production in Venezuela.
Biden's Interior nominee Deb Haaland can't answer if banning drilling will increase imports from higher polluting countries.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5 Times Biden's Interior Nominee Refused to Answer Basic Questions on Energy
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