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HEALTH: Marshall Islands receives DOI health-care grants

Rita :: Marshall Islands | 16 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The Department of the Interior�s Insular Assistant Secretary Tony Babauta signed a technical assistance grant in the amount of $985,235 to continue primary health care for members of the Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrik communities in the Marshall...

Tags: Marshall Islands, Interior Dept.

Schwarzenegger signs 2 renewable energy bills, vetoes others

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved two major initiatives that will require utilities to pay consumers for generating extra power and will boost the payoff for certain solar facilities. Homes, businesses and schools that have solar panels or wind...

Tags: Southern California Public Radio, renewable energy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Interior Dept., utilities companies, solar power

Opponents ask Salazar to halt offshore drilling

Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

including some dressed as salmon and a polar bear -- delivered more than 250,000 postcards and letters to the Interior Department Monday on a proposal to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and gas drilling. Interior Secretary...

Tags: offshore drilling, Ken Salazar, Interior Dept., interior secretary, secretary ken, Interior Department, Alaska, allow offshore, salazar says, Anchorage

Interior Launches Climate Strategy

Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

A secretarial order will create eight "regional climate change response centers" in areas ranging from Alaska to the Northeast and build landscape conservation cooperatives that will create strategies for the eight regions with the help of state and local...

Tags: Ken Salazar, Interior Launches Climate Strategy, Interior Dept., global warming, Washington

Obama keeps Bush polar bear rules

Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Environmental groups had been calling for the rule to be lifted, and the US Congress had given Interior Secretary Ken Salazar the power to do so. Mr Salazar said lifting the rule would create "uncertainty and confusion". The rule means the government...

Tags: polar bears, Obama Team Keeps Bush, Ken Salazar, George W. Bush, Interior Department, Maintain Bush-Era, US Interior, interior secretary, endangered species, Interior Dept

Embassy Attack Puts New Focus On Yemen

Sanaa :: Yemen | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

NPR.org , September 18, 2008 · Twisted metal, bits of human flesh and burned out cars littered the street outside the U.S. Embassy in San'a, Yemen, the morning after attackers mounted a coordinated frontal assault on the heavily-fortified compound. Yemeni...

Tags: Yemeni, U.S. Embassy, Al-Qaeda, Interior Dept., Dirk Kempthorne, Sanaa, embassies attack

Kempthorne condemns illicit behavior of Interior employees

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne condemned the current and former Interior employees accused of engaging in illicit sexual behavior and drug use with people from some of the very companies the agency offers drilling leases to and collects royalties...

Tags: Interior Department, minerals manages, manages service, Minerals Management Service, offshore oil, Interior Dept., gas companies, interior secretary, oil drilling, American

National Briefing | Northwest: Interior Dept. Requests to Delay Decision on Polar Bears in Alaska

Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Requests to Delay Decision on Polar Bears in Alaska Published: April 18, 2008 The Department of the Interior says it needs at least 10 more weeks to decide whether polar bears should be listed as threatened or endangered. Assistant Secretary Lyle Laverty...

Tags: polar bears, conservation groups, Interior Department, Interior Dept, Lyle Laverty, secretary lyle, lawsuit filed, interior says, delays decision, assistant secretary

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