I stand corrected....
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The White House cited the authority of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to change the name back to Denali. Jewell issued a secretarial order and signed it late last week.
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I mistakenly assumed it took an act of congress to do it, and though it is in the works, it hasn't happened yet.
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Efforts to change the peak's name back to Denali date back to 1975. The Washington Post reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) recently added language in a spending bill that would reestablish the mountain's original name.
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Quotes are from the article linked in the first post.