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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
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the 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 federal government over environmental travesties is, well, not really news -- unless it's TRCP, a non-litigious group with a largely Republican membership. The move is indicative that even the Bushies' natural allies are fed up ...
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)

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)

Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation		02 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation While you were whooping over your Wii, the energy industry exulted in a few holiday gifts of its own. Just before Christmas, a federal appeals court gave ExxonMobil a $2.5 billion break, slashing in half the $5 billion in damages that had been awarded to thousands of Alaskans affe ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, environmental justice, news, oil, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Threat Level: White U.S. proposes listing polar bears under Endangered Species Act		02 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Threat Level: White U.S. proposes listing polar bears under Endangered Species Act Maybe they saw one too many cute Coke ads, or maybe it was the court-imposed deadline. All we know is last week officials at the U.S. Interior Department proposed listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, in response to a suit filed in 2005 by three green groups. Melting Arctic ice has already led to ...
Topics: climate, Department of Interior, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Friends in Flow Places U.S. Interior lets oil-industry royalties slip away, investigation says		07 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Friends in Flow Places U.S. Interior lets oil-industry royalties slip away, investigation says An eight-month investigation by the U.S. Interior Department's inspector general reveals that Big Oil may be skirting millions of dollars in annual gas and oil royalties while Interior officials grease the skids. Some of the juicier findings: officials said they'd reviewed 72 percent of revenues from leases, ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Spite of the Living Dead Interior Department official disparages endangered-species recommendations		31 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Spite of the Living Dead Interior Department official disparages endangered-species recommendations If Julie MacDonald had a farm (e-i-e-i-o), all the animals would die. At least six times since 2004, MacDonald -- deputy assistant secretary of the Interior Department -- has rejected staff recommendations to protect susceptible flora and fauna under the Endangered Species Act, documents show. The Interior Department's ...
Topics: Department of Interior, news, wildlife (all these topics)

When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now		25 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
When Teshekpuk Comes to Shove Sensitive Alaska wetlands spared from drilling plan -- for now In good news for conservationists, the Department of Interior has announced willingness to exclude the sensitive Teshekpuk Lake wetlands from a region of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that it wants to open to oil and natural-gas drilling. The move has little to ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Goshute in the Foot Interior Department blocks interim nuke-waste site in Utah		11 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Goshute in the Foot Interior Department blocks interim nuke-waste site in Utah The Interior Department has blocked an interim nuclear-waste storage plant on a Native reservation in appropriately named Skull Valley, Utah. The department denied a lease and transportation plan for the site, which was to hold 44,000 tons of nuclear waste in above-ground casks about an hour's drive from Salt Lake City. The dep ...
Topics: Department of Interior, news, nuclear power, Utah (all these topics)

Off-Off-Road New National Park Service guidelines will emphasize conservation		31 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Off-Off-Road New National Park Service guidelines will emphasize conservation Today, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will announce new National Park Service management guidelines that emphasize ... wait for it ... conservation. Wha-huh? The new regulations more or less disregard revisions proposed a year ago under previous Interior Secretary Gale Norton that would have expanded motori ...
Topics: Department of Interior, National Park Service, national parks, news (all these topics)

Party at Jim's House! Idaho governor says no to coal, yes to whoopin' it up		11 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Party at Jim's House! Idaho governor says no to coal, yes to whoopin' it up Exhibiting the flair and confidence only a short-timer can afford, Idaho Gov. Jim Risch (R) has announced that the state don't need no stinkin' coal. Risch, who took office when Dirk Kempthorne resigned in May to head the Interior Department, will step down when the term ends in January. So why not have some fun? The guv will opt ...
Topics: coal, Department of Interior, energy, Idaho, news (all these topics)

Park de Triomphe Interior Dept. unveils new conservation-minded park policies		20 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Park de Triomphe Interior Dept. unveils new conservation-minded park policies New Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne scrapped predecessor Gale Norton's proposed policy changes to national-park management yesterday, issuing a revised draft with much greater emphasis on conservation. Reflective of policies already in place, the new draft de-emphasizes recreation, allows park managers to consider the effects of ou ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, news (all these topics)

Senate Takes Dirk in Interior Kempthorne confirmed as secretary of the interior		26 May 2006	Daily Grist
Senate Takes Dirk in Interior Kempthorne confirmed as secretary of the interior After a brief and largely pro forma confirmation hearing today, the Senate made it official: ex-Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) will succeed Gale Norton as secretary of the interior, steward of 20 percent of the nation's land. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) whinged a bit at the hearings about President Bush's plan to drill off the coast of Florida, but ot ...
Topics: Department of Interior, 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)

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