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Threat Laid Bear Polar bears threatened, but drilling in their habitat still OK, says Interior		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:47 AM on 14 May 2008 Polar bears are a threatened species, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday -- but that doesn't mean we can't drill in their habitat! The "threatened" designation means the bear could become endangered if conservation steps aren't taken; it puts polar bears on the endangered-species list but in effect allows Interior to pick and choose which ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, progress (all these topics)

'Bout the Bullet DOI takes public comment on allowing loaded guns in national parks		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 01 May 2008 The Interior Department has officially proposed allowing concealed firearms into some national parks and wildlife refuges. State laws against carrying loaded guns into parks would supersede the new rule: thus, for example, visitors to Death Valley National Park could tote a gun in the Nevada portion of the park, but not on the California side. As expected, opinions vary on the ma ...
Topics: Department of Interior, legislation, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

May of Reckoning Polar-bear listing decision must be made by May 15, says judge		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:55 AM on 29 Apr 2008 The last time we checked in with the laggardly Interior Department, it was saying it needed until June 30 to decide whether to place polar bears on the endangered-species list. But the department had better find its Decider Pants soon, as a federal judge has sided with green groups to impose a new deadline of May 15. "Other than the general complexity of finalizing the rule, def ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, polar bears, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

P is for Procrastination Polar bear listing decision delayed, again		18 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:22 AM on 18 Apr 2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it needs 10 more weeks to decide whether to list polar bears as a threatened or endangered species. The agency's self-imposed deadline is now June 30; the original deadline was Jan. 9. The USFWS says it needs time to review the legal and policy implications of a listing, but litigious greens suspect the delay may have something to do with the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, polar bears (all these topics)

Law & Order: Species Victims Unit Green group files lawsuit to protect 681 species		25 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:00 AM on 25 Mar 2008 Environmentalists filed suit last week against the U.S. Interior Department, seeking to force the agency to review and issue findings on the status of 681 species vulnerable to extinction. WildEarth Guardians, which filed the suit, contends that the Bush administration has deliberately stalled Endangered Species Act listing decisions to appease developers and other interests; ...
Topics: biodiversity, Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, United States (all these topics)

White and NRDC Inquiry made into delayed polar bear decision, green groups sue		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:02 AM on 10 Mar 2008 Let's check in on the latest polar bear shenanigans, shall we? Two months after deadline, the Interior Department still has made no decision on whether Ursus maritimus should be listed as a threatened species. Spurred by a critical letter from environmental groups, the agency's inspector general has begun preliminary inquiries into why the decision is taking so long. Greenpeace, the C ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, Greenpeace, litigation, news, NRDC, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Well, Shoot Ban on loaded firearms in national parks may be lifted		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:14 PM on 26 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto The Interior Department plans to revise regulations banning loaded guns in national parks, and park rangers and green groups are up in arms (figuratively, of course). Current rules, which require guns to be disarmed and stowed away within park boundaries, "are not unduly burdensome, but are limited, reasonable, and necessary," says the president of the National Parks ...
Topics: Department of Interior, legislation, national parks, news, politics (all these topics)

Missing in Auction Chukchi Sea oil lease auction goes ahead, polar-bear concerns ignored		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 6:17 AM on 06 Feb 2008 The U.S. Interior Department is auctioning off oil and gas leases on Wednesday to drill in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, despite opposition from environmentalists and some Democrats in Congress concerned about the impact on polar bears. The Chukchi Sea, off Alaska's northern coast, is prime polar-bear habitat and advocates worry that already-stressed bear populations will fare even ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Bear With Us Green groups sue over delay in polar-bear endangered-species decision		01 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:13 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Environmental and native groups have sued -- as they are wont to do -- in an attempt to force the Interior Department to rethink its decision to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, which is prime polar bear habitat. The lease sale by the department's Minerals Management Service is scheduled to go ahead next week; meanwhile, another agency in the department, the Fish a ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Polar Vault Decision on whether to list polar bears as a threatened species is delayed		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:51 AM on 07 Jan 2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, expected to announce on Wednesday its decision about whether to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, has announced instead that it will miss that deadline. The agency said it hopes to make a recommendation to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne within the next month, after continued analysis of scientific data a ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Crony Loves Chukchi Bush administration will offer oil leases in prime polar-bear habitat		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 02 Jan 2008 The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to offer offshore oil and gas drilling rights to 29.7 million acres of Alaska's Chukchi Sea. The area is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations; interestingly enough, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- also a part of the Interior Department -- is within days of deciding whether to list the polar bea ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Pay It Backward Court ruling may save oil companies billions in royalties		02 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:46 AM on 02 Nov 2007 A federal judge in Louisiana ruled this week that oil and gas companies who signed leases for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico between 1996 and 2000 do not have to pay royalties to the federal government when the price of oil and gas go over a certain threshold. The oil company Kerr-McGee sued the U.S. Interior Department after the agency tried to collect royalties for some product ...
Topics: Department of Interior, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, United States (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Don't Uproot Interior Department urged to redo recovery plan for spotted owl		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:15 PM on 03 Oct 2007 Was the Interior Department's recovery plan for the northern spotted owl watered down because of political pressure to favor logging interests? Six peer reviews of the plan (five of them funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) suggest yes. So do 113 scientists who sent a letter yesterday asking the Interior Department to rewrite its draft plan, which favored shooting ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, habitat loss, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

The War on Error Inspector general's report finds problems with royalty-collection program at Interior		26 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:57 AM on 26 Sep 2007 A new report by the U.S. Interior Department's inspector general points to a "profound failure" of the technology that the Minerals Management Service uses to monitor the roughly $10 billion in oil and gas royalty payments from energy companies each year. But it's not just the technology. Higher-ups in the agency apparently decided that even after cat ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development		22 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Teddy would be proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Friday Never Felt So Right Interior officials messed with science, say witnesses at House hearing		11 May 2007	Daily Grist
Friday Never Felt So Right Interior officials messed with science, say witnesses at House hearing Think you've had a rough week? Imagine how the U.S. Interior Department feels. This week saw a heated House hearing in which activists and former officials testified about Interior's nasty habit of meddling with science. "This is an agency that seems focused on one goal: weakening ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

His Soul Goes Marching On BP CEO John Browne and U.S. Interior Department official resign		03 May 2007	Daily Grist
His Soul Goes Marching On BP CEO John Browne and U.S. Interior Department official resign In one of the oddest corporate tumbles in recent memory, BP CEO John Browne has resigned over allegations that he lied in court about the origins of his four-year relationship with a male escort. Huh wha? Browne, who spent 41 years rising through the oil giant's ranks, was slated for early retirement this ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, Department of Interior, news, shenanigans (all these topics)

The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate		16 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate Remember when U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the agency would propose listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act? And he said that, while the bears' home was indeed melting, "that whole aspect of climate change is beyon ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, Russia (all these topics)

It Just Gets In the Way U.S. Interior considering revamp of Endangered Species Act, draft shows		28 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
It Just Gets In the Way U.S. Interior considering revamp of Endangered Species Act, draft shows Last week, a U.S. Interior Department memo quietly changed where endangered species are protected. Now it seems the feds have been giving the Endangered Species Act an even broader rethink. A leaked draft shows that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has toyed with shifti ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Turns Out He Does Know Jack Former Interior deputy pleads guilty to lying in Abramoff investigation		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Turns Out He Does Know Jack Former Interior deputy pleads guilty to lying in Abramoff investigation The second in command at the U.S. Interior Department in Bush's first term has pleaded guilty to telling big, fat lies to the Senate during the Jack Abramoff lobbying investigation. That's what the kids call obstruction of justice, and it could have netted J. Steven Griles up to five years in p ...
Topics: Department of Interior, lobbying, lying liars, news, politics (all these topics)

You'll Be Fine, Yogi Yellowstone-area grizzly bears lose Endangered Species Act protection		23 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
You'll Be Fine, Yogi Yellowstone-area grizzly bears lose Endangered Species Act protection The U.S. Interior Department will remove Yellowstone-area grizzlies from Endangered Species Act protection, putting management of bears that live outside the park in the hands of state officials in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. And by "management," of course, we mean killin'. The region's bear count has swell ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, news (all these topics)

Not So Fast Environmentalists take EPA, Interior Department to task		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Not So Fast Environmentalists take EPA, Interior Department to task Remember when U.S. agencies used to be able to get away with their nefarious eco-deeds? Like, for the last seven years or so? The times might just be changing. Deed one: the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management decided, after 20 years, to reactivate 23 drilling leases in areas of U ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Interior, jackassery, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, Utah (all these topics)

An Old Lease on Life U.S. Interior Department negotiating to recoup lost royalties		01 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
An Old Lease on Life U.S. Interior Department negotiating to recoup lost royalties Not yet recovered from its embarrassment at a contractual omission that lost the U.S. a hell of a lot of money, the Interior Department is negotiating with 22 oil and gas companies to try and recoup the dough. When the feds issued deep-water drilling leases for the Gulf of Mexico in 1998 and 1999, they n ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

I'm Rich, Beach Oil lobbyist, former U.S. officials combat rumors of unethical real-estate deal		15 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
I'm Rich, Beach Oil lobbyist, former U.S. officials combat rumors of unethical real-estate deal We would never engage in idle speculation about the allegedly unethical relationship between a ConocoPhillips oil lobbyist, a former U.S. Interior top dog, and the Justice Department's freshly resigned lead eco-prosecutor. But the big boys would, and we consider it our duty to share. The big boy ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Department of Justice, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

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