In a historic move, President Biden has nominated Rep. Deb Haaland to run the Department of the Interior.

• Haaland — whose roots in her home state of New Mexico go back 35 generations — would be the first Native American to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

• But some senators who are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry are opposing Haaland’s nomination.

• Why?

• Because Haaland agrees with Biden — not to mention an overwhelming majority of the American people — that climate change is an existential threat and that we must accelerate our shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

• Haaland noted at her confirmation hearing yesterday that this shift “isn’t going to happen overnight” and that fossil fuels “will continue to play a major role in America for years to come.”

• Republican senators are nevertheless whining that the idea of shifting to renewables is “radical.” (That’s the best they can do?)

• What’s radical is confirming an oil and gas lobbyist to be Interior Secretary, as the Senate did under Donald Trump.

• What’s radical is willfully making the world less and less habitable so that fossil fuel companies can keep raking in short-term profits.

Presented with a supremely qualified, knowledgeable, unconflicted, history-making nominee who is committed to the public lands and the planet, there is only one thing for senators to do:

Vote yes.

Send this simple message to the Senate:

Confirm Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior.

Add your name.

Thanks for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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