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Interior Department bill has $24 million for regional projects
Rifle :: CO :: USA | 5 days ago
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Sunday, November 01, 2009 Projects as varied as Mesa Verde National Park improvements, Rifle drinking-water lines and trail access to Dominguez Canyon would benefit from an Interior Department appropriations bill that...
Tags: Interior Department, Rifle, Environment, Land management, Mesa County Colorado, Politics, Wildland fire suppression, Conservation in the United States, Colorado, Bureau of Land Management, Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States, Uncompahgre National Forest
Salazar fires back at oil trade groups
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility 00 AM MST Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday rebuffed criticism from the oil-and-gas industry that the Obama administration is stifling energy development in the West and offshore. Calling the charges "poison and deceptive," Salazar said at a...
Tags: Ken Salazar, gas leasing, Obama Administration, interior secretary, leasing sales, secretary ken, trade group, Interior Department, leasing program, Alaska, Washington, Business Finance, Energy in the United States, Environment, Oil and gas law in the United States, Politics, North Slope Borough Alaska, Petroleum in the United States, United States Department of the Interior, National Petroleum Reserve￢ﾀﾓAlaska, Bureau of Land Management, Salazar, Presidency of Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Offshore oil and gas in California, Energy law, Exclaves, West Coast of the United States, Energy policy, Petroleum production, Land management
Australian oil spill seeps into Senate debate about drilling
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The spill off the western Australian coast spewed oil into the ocean for 10 weeks, eventually engulfing a platform and the attached drilling rig in flames. Opponents of offshore drilling are now using images from the spill as a warning sign of what could...
Tags: U.S, Senate, offshore drilling, Bob Menendez, Interior Department, Australia, oil spill, Mary Landrieu, senate energy, Anchorage, Petroleum, Drilling rig, Seadrill, Petroleum industry, Politics, Business Finance, Petroleum production, Oil platforms, Energy in the United States, Disaster Accident, Environment
US moves to stop coal dumping into waterways
Washington :: DC :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility The US government took the first steps Wednesday to reverse a last-minute rule passed by the Bush administration which allowed coal mine operators to dump excavated material into streams. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM)...
Tags: mountaintop mining, Interior Department, Washington, Office of Surface Mining, Coal mining, Overburden, Coal, Mining, Environment, Surface mining, Mountaintop removal mining, Water pollution, Politics, Pollution in the United States, United States environmental law, Clean Water Act, United States Department of the Interior
Bishop: Environmental rules impeding border security
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility With the United States cracking down on immigrants coming through urban areas, Bishop says many of those crossing illegally are instead heading toward the less scrutinized areas of federal wilderness near the border -- some 4.3 million acres of it. But,...
Tags: border security, wilderness area, Interior and Agriculture, Interior Department, Janet Napalitano, impeding border, Forest Service, Salt Lake City, United States Department of Homeland Security, Homeland security, Mexico ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Ecology, Wilderness, Protected areas of the United States
No monkey business around Ms. Goodall
Mumbai :: India | 17 days ago
Credibility Today's the day to see famous primate expert Jane Goodall, speaking at 3 p.m. at the Interior Department's headquarters auditorium. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar e-mailed all headquarters folks last week to invite them to hear Goodall talk about her...
Tags: endangered species, salazar, financial managed, Interior Department, IRS, Stephen Hadley, RiceHadley Group, Ken Salazar, India, Mumbai, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Michael Chertoff, Condoleezza Rice, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, The Scowcroft Group
Dem House members ask Interior to preserve 9.4 million acres in Utah
Washington :: DC :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility Enter your Zip code to find news and events in your area Font Resize The Salt Lake Tribune Washington » Nearly 90 members of Congress want the Interior Department to protect 9.4 million acres of Utah public lands from development while lawmakers consider...
Tags: Utah, Ken Salazar, million acres, Interior Department
Obama makes pledge to American Indians
Mumbai :: India | 25 days ago
Credibility US President Barack Obama told an unprecedented gathering of tribal leaders Thursday that he was committed to giving Native American Indians an equal shot at the "American dream". Addressing leaders of all 564 tribes recognized by the US government, Obama...
Tags: Barack Obama, Mr Obama, Native American Indians, white house, Native Americans, Washington, house tribal, tribal leaders, obama told, Interior Department
Companies report progress in oil shale trials
Colorado :: CO :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Efforts to mine oil from rock are ongoing in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, speakers at a symposium said Tuesday, the same day Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Salt Lake City that he would cut the size of new oil shale leases. Representatives from...
Tags: oil shale, Ken Salazar, Colorado School of Mines, Interior Department, bush administration, Bush, interior secretary, royalty rates, secretary ken, Utah
Interior to reoffer Utah drilling leases
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility He says 17 of 77 leases for bid should be allowed to proceed. Published: 10/9/2009 2:24 AM Last Modified: 10/9/2009 2:24 AM The Interior Department will reoffer 17 of 77 lease parcels for oil and natural gas drilling in Utah after halting their development...
Tags: Utah, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, bush administration, Bush, utah lands, gas drilling, interior secretary, secretary ken
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