The Alaska Republican US senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation to officially rename North America’s tallest mountain as Denali, a counter to Donald Trump’s executive order to revert the peak’s name to Mount McKinley.
The Department of the Interior, under the former US president Barack Obama, later changed the peak’s name to Denali from Mount McKinley in 2015, undoing a 1917 proclamation meant to honor 25th US president William McKinley.
Murkowski’s bill, which was co-sponsored by her fellow Republican senator for Alaska, Dan Sullivan, would require the peak to be referred to as Denali on any US maps, laws and regulations.
“President McKinley championed tariffs to protect US manufacturing, boost domestic production, and drive US industrialization and global reach to new heights,” wrote Trump in the executive order.
Republican senator Lisa Murakowski introduces bill to require peak’s name kept on US maps, laws and regulations.
