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Oil and gas withdrawal stirs debate over economic costs for Native American tribe

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Tourist Chris Farthing, from Suffolks County, England, takes a picture of Anasazi ruins in Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Aug. 10, 2005, in New Mexico. Some Republican members of Congress voiced opposition on July 13, 2023, to the Biden administration’s recent move to withdraw hundreds of square miles of federal land in New Mexico from oil and gas development, including land around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, offering their support instead to legislation that would unravel the ban. (AP Photo/Jeff Geissler)

Oil and gas withdrawal stirs debate over economic costs for Native American tribe

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some Republican members of Congress on Thursday denounced the Biden administration’s recent move to withdraw hundreds of square miles of federal land in New Mexico from...

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