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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: U.S. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland & MMIWR Task Force Quietly Disbanded
Description: Lou DiVizio opens the show with headlines from around the state, including an update on the suspect accused of firing a shot Albuquerque's Coronado Center over the holiday weekend.
This summer, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) announced an order ending oil and gas leases on federal lands in a 10-mile radius around Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales (Navajo) speaks with Haaland about her work and asks her to respond to activists who say the federal government isn't doing enough to protect the Greater Chaco landscape.Â
Then w...