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By Rachel Dobkin
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Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, said at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday that she wants to lead "one of the most important agencies" under former President Donald Trump.
If Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, wins in November, Boebert thinks she would be best fit to serve as his secretary of the interior, which oversees federal land and natural resources. The current secretary of the interior is Deb Haaland. She is the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
When asked by Native Voice One, a broadcast corporation that highlights the voices of indigenous people, on Wednesday in Milwaukee who should be the secretary of the interior under another possible Trump administration, Boebert said, "I think Lauren Boebert needs to be secretary of the interior. President Trump, I would like to be secretary of the interior.
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"I think this is actually one of the most important agencies within the federal government. Public lands are something that are very dear to me and I've spent a lot of time on our tribal lands with our chairman and our councilmembers there with the Mountain Utes and the Southern Utes," Boebert said.
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Boebert called herself "pro-fossile fuels" and said that "our tribal lands are impacted severely when we are shutting down our coal-fired energy plants."
"States like Colorado, we have some of the cleanest coal in the entire world, and that affects those tribal lands down the road that are getting energy, and they're forced to burn wood in some areas, which we know is as much dirtier, a much dirtier way to produce heat," she said.
Boebert advocated for oil and gas drilling, which exposes people who live near drilling sites to pollutants daily.
"In one of my tribal lands, we have a lot of drilling that takes place and I believe that that is a cleaner way to take care of the environment and extract those resources that we have been blessed with to use what's given to us by the earth to produce this energy in a clean and efficient way rather than just covering it up with solar panels and wind turbines killing so many vital species," Boebert said.
Newsweek reached out to Boebert's office via email for comment.
While wind turbines kill birds, studies have shown that oil and gas drilling is worse for the animals as it destroys their habitats.
President Joe Biden has made tackling climate change a major priority and promotes clean energy. In June, the Biden administration released updated plans "that expand agency efforts to ensure their facilities, employees, resources, and operations are increasingly resilient to climate change impacts like extreme weather." The plans were developed by over 20 federal agencies including the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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