I think there’s an interesting Native American angle here. Murkowski owes Native Americans in Alaska for the fact that she won as an independent when Republicans ran somebody against her. And my impression is that Native Americans in Alaska want the jobs that come with the extraction industry.

«As these conversations were first getting under way in early 2021, Murkowski agreed to support Biden’s pick for Interior secretary, then-New Mexico Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, despite her concerns about the nominee’s far-left environmental record.»

https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-murkowski-helped-move-biden-on-willow/