Biden's Interior Secretary, Who Invoked 'Indigenous Knowledge' To Ban Oil Drilling, Wins Governor's Race in New Mexico, America's Second-Biggest Oil Producer

But her election may be more significant in what it represents for the energy industry in New Mexico, the country's second-largest oil-producing state and third-largest natural gas producer. - Thomas Catenacci

• She vowed, for example, to set the state on a pathway to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and "go all in on" green energy...
• When Haaland banned drilling across millions of acres in some of America's most oil-rich land in Alaska, she cited "indigenous knowledge" and said that climate change is "warming the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet."...