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Interior Secretary Advocates For Big Budget Increase On Capitol Hill

Boise State Public Radio News | By Nate Hegyi
Published July 28, 2021 at 12:07 PM MDT
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faces lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faces lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday, July 27, 2021.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faced lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday as she advocated for an $18 billion budget increase for her department next year. The money would go towards advancing renewable energy projects, expanding wildland fire programs and boosting public safety on reservations.

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Nate Hegyi
Nate Hegyi is a reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau based at Yellowstone Public Radio. He earned an M.A. in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism in 2016 and interned at NPR’s Morning Edition in 2014. In a prior life, he toured around the country in a band, lived in Texas for a spell, and once tried unsuccessfully to fly fish. You can reach Nate at nate@ypradio.org.
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