Green New Deal
Deb Haaland, Biden’s interior secretary nominee, says she’ll be ‘fierce for our planet’
Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, President Biden’s nominee for secretary of the interior, is the first Native American to lead the department. She plans to bring a strong conservation, climate action and tribal rights record to the agenda.
The ‘Green New Deal’ started with six college grads. Now, they’re recruiting an army of young people.
The Green New Deal is often linked to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman congresswoman who is the idea’s most visible champion. But in its current form, it’s the brainchild of a bunch of 20-somethings sick of older generations’ inaction on climate change.
