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Headline	Author	Published	Section
No One Anticipated the Breach of the Royalties U.S. Interior Department knew about drilling loophole for years		17 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
No One Anticipated the Breach of the Royalties U.S. Interior Department knew about drilling loophole for years We're beginning to detect a pattern among Bush administration responses to huge fusterclucks. It seems U.S. Interior Department officials who said they'd learned only last year that oil companies were avoiding billions of dollars in royalty payments have (surprise!) known about the problem for a w ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill The House of Representatives was on an eco-roll yesterday as it fixed up an Interior Department spending bill to send to the Senate. Over the objections of top Republicans, lawmakers approved 252-165 a measure that would put oil and gas ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, politics, toxics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Dirk du Soleil Interior nominee Kempthorne backs away from plan to sell U.S. forests		05 May 2006	Daily Grist
Dirk du Soleil Interior nominee Kempthorne backs away from plan to sell U.S. forests Senate confirmation hearings began yesterday for Interior Secretary nominee Dirk Kempthorne, and oh, the fun that was had. One hot topic was the Bush administration's proposal to fund rural schools by selling thousands of acres of public land; the Dirkster, who supported sale of public lands when he ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Dirk in a Full Nelson Debate over offshore drilling may hold up Kempthorne's confirmation		10 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Dirk in a Full Nelson Debate over offshore drilling may hold up Kempthorne's confirmation A Bush administration plan to open 2 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling has created rifts in Congress and may hold up Dirk Kempthorne's confirmation as interior secretary. The sentimentally named "Area 181," south of Pensacola, Fla., is estimated to have resource c ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans (all these topics)

Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts		09 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts When President Bush said "America is addicted to oil," we thought ... wait, did we say this already? Yesterday, the administration proposed new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida, Virginia, and Alaska -- including areas covered by a long-standing moratorium on offsh ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans, Virginia (all these topics)

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