Biden’s interior secretary pick makes inroads with the oil sector

Biden’s interior secretary pick makes inroads with the oil sector

Two things to start: ExxonMobil is the latest supermajor toretreat from the UK's North Sea. And Texas's energy crisis is snowballing into a credit crisis.

Welcome to another Energy Source. Our first note starts in Washington, where Debra Haaland, President Joe Biden's candidate for interior secretary, faced a grilling from the Senate's energy committee.

Our second is from Mexico, where the government took another step “” this time in electricity “” towards tightening state control of the energy sector, pushing forward legislation that would reverse earlier reforms.

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Biden's interior pick plays it cool“‰.“‰.“‰. for now

When Debra Haaland travelled north in 2016 to join protests against the construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline “” rustling up green chilli and tortillas for demonstrators “” she probably didn't expect five years later to be making her case to pro-fossil fuel senators to be the next secretary of the interior.

As a congresswoman, Haaland has been an outspoken environmentalist: she was an early supporter of the Green New Deal, "wholeheartedly“ backed a ban on fracking and drilling on public lands, lashed out at fossil fuel production and lobbied hard for the expansion of