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Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling		24 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling The Bush administration plans to open to drilling more than 400,000 acres of Alaska's North Slope thought to be vital to migratory birds and caribou, after the Bureau of Land Management determined that drilling can be done with "minimum impact" on wildlife. Interior Secretary Gale Nort ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Mustang Silly Herd of Wild Horses Gets in Way of Bush Admin's Drilling Plans It may come as a surprise to some that the U.S. is still home to about 27,000 wild, free-roaming mustangs, not yet driven from their open ranges by human development. But just wait. The Bureau of Land Management is set to round up one of Colorado's five remaining mustang herds and remove it from its terrain in ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

This Land Is Your Land ... For Now Bush administration proposal would give BLM more incentive to sell off public lands	Amanda Griscom	06 Aug 2004	Muckraker
Your red rocks, in Utah. Photo: BLM. The old Woody Guthrie ballad "This Land Is Your Land" has been reinterpreted in more ways than one recently. There was the hilarious campaign parody cartoon that exploded virally throughout the Internet last month, in which the "liberal wiener" (John Kerry) and "right-wing nut job" ( ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Muckraker, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

How Much for the Whole State? Mining Plan Raises Questions About Bush Political Contributor		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, New Mexico, political groups (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine EPA and BLM fight over how to protect groundwater from massive Nevada mine	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In an age when corporate America can't see past its quarterly results, it's hard to imagine how the world's largest gold producer is going to manage the environmental damage caused by one of its mines hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. Future site of the Phoenix mine. Photo: Lighthawk, Great Basin Mine Watch. That's the challenge Newmont Mining Corp. faces as ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining, Muckraker, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine Agencies Fight Over Trust Fund to Protect Groundwater from Nevada Mine		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Nevada, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Party Favors Bush drilling plan ticks off many New Mexicans and tickles GOP donors pink	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is facing off against the Department of Interior and its Bureau of Land Management over a plan to allow oil and gas drilling on his state's pristine Otero Mesa -- an expanse of desert grassland which the governor, with a touch of dramatic flair, has called "the West's ANWR." Don't mesa 'round with New Mexico. Photo: Nathan Newcomer, N ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Muckraker, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling A coalition of seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a plan to open 8.8 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas development. The groups -- including t ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling Try as it might, the Bush administration hasn't been able to get its hands on oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Perhaps to make itself feel better, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is forging ahead with plans to permit aggressive oil drilling in large swaths of ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge isn't on the oil-and-gas chopping block under the terms of the current behemoth energy bill, but the rest of the state isn't quite as lucky: The Bush administration will announce today that it plans to open 8.8 million acres of Ala ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Why-oming		01 May 2003	Daily Grist
Why-oming In a much-anticipated decision, the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management announced yesterday that it would approve the development of as many as 51,000 coalbed methane wells in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin. Although the BLM also called for a team of government representatives to monitor the air- and water-quality effects of the wells, environmentalists were disappointe ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Wild Thing, I Think I Lost You		14 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Wild Thing, I Think I Lost You In a major blow to wilderness advocates in Utah and around the country, the Bush administration on Friday announced its intention to suspend new wilderness reviews of federal lands in the West and to remove protections from nearly 3 million acres in Utah that had been under consideration for wilderness status. The Interior Department, in settling a lawsuit filed by the s ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, politics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

The Pardners' Tale		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Pardners' Tale Cowboys and environmentalists unite! The unlikely amigos are banding together to try to keep natural gas drillers away from ranches on public land in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Yesterday morning, they blocked drilling crews from entering four ranches, arguing that ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, erosion, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, ranching, renewable energy (all these topics)

Keep the Pedal From the Metal		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Keep the Pedal From the Metal The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is barring off-road enthusiasts from one of their favorite playgrounds in Utah -- but this time, it's to safeguard their own health, not that of the environment. At Manning Canyon, a recreation area near Salt Lake City, the soil is contaminated with arsenic, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals f ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, toxics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Bed Head		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Bed Head An Interior Department appeals board has upheld its earlier ruling that three of the leases for a coal bed methane (CBM) drilling project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin were issued without adequate environmental review. Environmentalists hope the decision will help block pending leases for such drilling on ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

Canyon of Worms		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canyon of Worms The Bush administration announced yesterday that energy companies will be allowed to expand oil and gas exploration beyond the boundaries of their leases at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Durango, Colo. The announcement marks the first time exploration has been permitted outside leased areas at a monument. Already, about 85 percent of the 164,0 ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

When the Latter Day Saints Go Marching in		30 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
When the Latter Day Saints Go Marching in Environmentalists are up against an unusual adversary in a fight over the sale of a national historic landmark in Wyoming: Mormons. Seven representatives in the U.S. House -- all of them members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints -- are cosponsoring a bill to sell Bureau of Land Management land to the LDS Church, which treasures the area beca ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, Wyoming (all these topics)

Phil Anthropist		25 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Phil Anthropist Phil Anschutz is an unlikely hero for Native Americans and environmentalists. One of the richest people in the country and a mega-donor to the Republican Party, Anschutz made his fortune in oil before launching Qwest Communications. Last year, his oil company, Anschutz Exploration, won permission from the Bureau of Land Management to drill in Montana's Weatherman Dr ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, mining and drilling, Montana (all these topics)

Timber Boom II		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Timber Boom II The Bush administration has indicated that it will rewrite the Northwest Forest Plan, the nation's first attempt to manage a broad ecosystem across an entire region of the U.S. In an development welcomed by timber interests, U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth has asked regional heads of the USFS, the Bureau of Land Management, and other agencies to recommend c ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, logging, Northwest, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Seam Stress		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Seam Stress After Sept. 11, the folks in the White House found a favorite tune -- the need to decrease U.S. reliance on foreign oil any which way but through conservation -- and it seems they just can't stop singing it. First it was used to promote drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; now, in a variation in a miner key, the Bush administration says our national securit ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land degradation, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Dune Bugging		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Dune Bugging Almost 50,000 acres of dunes in California's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area would be re-opened to off-road vehicles (ORVs) under a Bureau of Land Management proposal. The area has been off-limits to the vehicles since November of 2000, when the BLM, ORV groups, and environmentalists negotiated a settlement that closed the area to protect endangered speci ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, California, outdoor recreation, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics)

Bureau of Land Manglement		26 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Bureau of Land Manglement The U.S. Bureau of Land Management granted permission yesterday to the Marine Corps to conduct two weeks of military exercises in the Arizona desert in late April and early May. Environmentalists are worried that tortoises and rare desert plants might be casualties of the Marine exercises. Known as Desert Scimitar '02, the mission will test the ability of the Marines to deploy large nu ...
Topics: Arizona, Bureau of Land Management, wildlife (all these topics)

Land O' Flakes		19 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Land O' Flakes The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has got a blueprint for implementing the Bush administration's energy plan, and it involves speeding up approval for petitions to drill for oil and gas, creating easier access to petroleum deposits, reducing royalty payments by industry to the government, and easing environmental restrictions. All that, without harming the environment, BLM Assistant ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Doe, Oh Dear!		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Doe, Oh Dear! In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the n ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Missouri, pollution and waste, toxics, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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