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 Stories About: Department of Interior AND politics AND United States
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This Too Shale Pass Bush admin proposes rules for domestic oil-shale development |
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22 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:35 AM on 22 Jul 2008 The Bush administration today will propose rules for tapping the U.S.'s vast oil-shale deposits, estimated to hold up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Oil shale development is enormously expensive and spectacularly polluting, but the U.S. Department of the Interior is expected to frame the debate in terms of high fuel prices and domestic "energy security." Presid ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Stevie Nix Interior Deputy Secretary Griles resigns |
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08 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Stevie Nix Interior Deputy Secretary Griles resigns The No. 2 official at the Interior Department, Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles, yesterday became the latest Bush administration appointee to announce he's jumping ship come January. Under investigation during nearly half his tenure at Interior for ethics violations stemming from his uninterrupted $284,000 annual payments from his former employer, a lobby ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Craig's List An interview with Bush's point person on species and parks |
Amanda Griscom |
15 Apr 2004 |
Main Dish |
| Craig Manson. Craig Manson is the man President Bush selected to protect America's critters. And like many top dogs in this administration, he's not exactly considered a good friend of the environmental community. As assistant interior secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks, Manson implements the Endangered Species Act, determines the direction of the National Park System and the Fish and Wi ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, interview, national parks, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit |
Amanda Scott |
07 Dec 2001 |
Main Dish |
| Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics) |
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