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 Stories About: Department of Energy AND politics AND US EPA
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Hutto you know? Cheney aide poised to head key division of Department of Energy |
Kate Sheppard |
19 Aug 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The Washington Post reports today that F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, is likely to be appointed as a key official at the Energy Department. Hutto has been a leading opponent of environmental regulations within the administration. A promotion to assistant secretary for policy and international affairs would put him in charge of the department's policies on climate change. The DOE website says the assistant secretary serves as ' ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, Dick Cheney, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics) |
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You Put Your Right Foot in ... Shuffling is afoot in Bush administration's environment-related slots |
Amanda Griscom Little |
18 Nov 2004 |
Muckraker |
| There's so much talk of hirings, firings, retirings, and resignations at environment-related agencies in the Bush administration that it feels almost as though a whole new regime were coming in, when in fact we're likely to get four more years of the same policy aims. Ann Veneman (left) and Spencer Abraham. Photo: USDA. Departing at the cabinet level are Ann V ... |
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| Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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To the Victor Goes the Right to Spoil How the Energy Industry Won the Battle for Influence in the Bush Admin. |
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08 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| To the Victor Goes the Right to Spoil How the Energy Industry Won the Battle for Influence in the Bush Admin. It's a fable for our times: When the Bush administration took office in 2001, a battle over energy policy began. On one side was the U.S. EPA, with its team of long-time career employees and its moderate new head Christie Whitman. On the other side was Vice President Dick Cheney, the Energy Department under S ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Resigned to His Fate
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01 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Resigned to His Fate In the most dramatic move yet relating to the Bush administration's internal battle over federal clean air policy, a senior U.S. EPA official resigned this week to protest White House efforts to weaken tough emissions standards for power plants and oil refineries. Eric Schaeffer, head of the agency's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, accused the Energy Depart ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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