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Protest derails planned celebration of 20-year ban on oil drilling

Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press//June 12, 2023//[read_meter]

Deb Haaland, Navajo,

United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southwest Regional Office, in Albuquerque, N.M., on June 11, 2023. Haaland's plans to return to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on June 11 were derailed when a group of Navajo landowners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration's recent decision to enshrine for the next 20 years what previously had been an informal 10-mile (16-kilometer) buffer around the World Heritage site. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Protest derails planned celebration of 20-year ban on oil drilling

Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press//June 12, 2023//[read_meter]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, after her agency spent many months hosting public meetings and talking...

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