Over the weekend, a bunch of Navajo Nation residents protested a brand new oil leasing ban by forming a street blockade that shut down a Biden administration occasion.
Inside Secretary Deb Haaland on June 2 positioned a ban on oil, gasoline, and mineral-leasing inside 10 miles of Chaco Canyon, situated in Chaco Tradition Nationwide Historic Park in New Mexico.
The ban is ready to stay in impact for 20 years, regardless of pushback from the Navajo group, which argued that the prohibition would negatively affect…
