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Bush Sticks Dirk in Interior Enviros decry Bush's nomination of Kempthorne to lead Interior		17 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Bush Sticks Dirk in Interior Enviros decry Bush's nomination of Kempthorne to lead Interior He's a mountain-bike enthusiast, two-term governor, and object of fear and loathing among conservationists. And he just picked another one. Mere days after the resignation of Gale Norton as secretary of the interior, President Bush nominated as her replacement Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R), saying he would help " ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Idaho, news, politics (all these topics)

Beyond the Gale Kempthorne leads list of possible replacements for Norton at Interior	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Mar 2006	Muckraker
The rumor mill is churning fast as Interior Secretary Gale Norton prepares to bid adieu to the Bush administration, and two names on the short list of possible replacements are leading the pack: for an outside-the-Beltway pick, Dirk Kempthorne, Republican governor of Idaho; for an inside-the-agency pick, Lynn Scarlett, currently Norton's No. 2, who will likely run the depart ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Idaho, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Don't Let the Door Hit You ... Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigns		10 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Don't Let the Door Hit You ... Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigns Gale Norton, secretary of the Department of Interior, announced today that she will resign her position, effective at the end of the month. "Now I feel it is time for me to leave this mountain you gave me to climb," she wrote in her resignation letter to President Bush, "catch my breath, then set my sights on new goals to achieve in the private ...
Topics: Department of Interior, news (all these topics)

Interior Wreckorating Interior official says big oil-royalty giveaway was likely a mistake		02 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Interior Wreckorating Interior official says big oil-royalty giveaway was likely a mistake Remember that $7 billion to $9 billion in royalty payments that oil and gas companies won't be sending to American taxpayers for leases on public land? Turns out it's the result of an Interior Department mistake. Oopsie! According to testimony yesterday before a House subcommittee, in 1998 and 1999 Interior "inadvertently" dropp ...
Topics: Department of Interior, news (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)

OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling		12 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
OK, We'll Just Drill Over Here Instead Bush administration opens up Alaska wildlife habitat to drilling The Bush administration's lust for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge having gone unrequited, it's going to stick its derricks in some sloppy seconds: The Department of Interior is opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of other Alaskan wildlife habitat to dri ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Fo Shizzle, My Grizzle Yellowstone grizzlies no longer threatened, Bush administration argues		15 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Fo Shizzle, My Grizzle Yellowstone grizzlies no longer threatened, Bush administration argues Hey, Boo-Boo, Yellowstone's grizzlies may be removed from the endangered species list if the Interior Department has its way. In a proposal unveiled today, the Bush administration notes that bear numbers in the park have tripled to more than 600 over the past 30-odd years of listing, and are growing 4 to 7 percent annually. ...
Topics: Department of Interior, news, wildlife (all these topics)

You've Got Gale Interior Secretary urges more energy extraction on public lands		28 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
You've Got Gale Interior Secretary urges more energy extraction on public lands According to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, the current vicious hurricane season has taught the Bush administration a lesson, namely: Keep doing the same stuff. She says that Katrina and Rita show the folly of concentrating the nation's fossil-fuel infrastructure in one geographic area, and that the solution is reducing our depe ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

A Friendly Conservation White House to greens: We should totally do this again some time	Jon Christensen	02 Sep 2005	Soapbox
Say anything. Uncle Sam wants you ... to cooperate on conservation. Not only that, he's willing to listen. At least that's what he says. Earlier this week, St. Louis hosted the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. The invitation-only event was modeled after Teddy Roosevelt's 1908 Governors' Conference, which brought all the country's governors, Supreme Court j ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, environmental planning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science		17 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Phony Express Falsified Yucca documents lead to investigation of project's science The use of fabricated sources in a study about the safety of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump -- revealed in a series of emails between scientists -- has Energy and Interior Department officials scrambling to investigate. The U.S. Geological Survey study was critical to the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Stevie Nix Interior Deputy Secretary Griles resigns		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 ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Dam Bush administration tweaks dam regulations to favor industry		28 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Lion Shall Lie Down With the Dam Bush administration tweaks dam regulations to favor industry The Bush administration has just proposed a regulatory change that would grant the hydropower industry exclusive rights to appeal Interior Department rulings on dam licensing and operation -- and deny those rights to states, Indian tribes, and environmental groups. Many privately owned dams, bui ...
Topics: dams, Department of Interior, energy, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

This Land Is Your Land ... For Now Bush administration proposal would give BLM more incentive to sell off public lands	Amanda Griscom	06 Aug 2004	Muckraker
Your red rocks, in Utah. Photo: BLM. The old Woody Guthrie ballad "This Land Is Your Land" has been reinterpreted in more ways than one recently. There was the hilarious campaign parody cartoon that exploded virally throughout the Internet last month, in which the "liberal wiener" (John Kerry) and "right-wing nut job" ( ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Muckraker, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, interview, national parks, politics, United States (all these topics)

Party Favors Bush drilling plan ticks off many New Mexicans and tickles GOP donors pink	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is facing off against the Department of Interior and its Bureau of Land Management over a plan to allow oil and gas drilling on his state's pristine Otero Mesa -- an expanse of desert grassland which the governor, with a touch of dramatic flair, has called "the West's ANWR." Don't mesa 'round with New Mexico. Photo: Nathan Newcomer, N ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Muckraker, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is leading an improbable coalition of enviros, ranchers, hunters, and property-rights activists in a fight against the Bush administration's plans to drill for natural gas in the Otero Mesa area of New Me ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Interior, elections, energy, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

The Otter Limits DOI Proposes Adding Sea Otters to Endangered Species List		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
The Otter Limits DOI Proposes Adding Sea Otters to Endangered Species List The U.S. Department of the Interior yesterday proposed adding southwest Alaska's sea otters to the government's threatened species list, which would offer them protections under the Endangered Species Act. The sea otter population in southwest Alaska was robust as late as 1980, but since then has dropped precipitously, a declin ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged A coalition of more than 60 environmental, civil-rights, and Native American groups have sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing the confirmation of William G. Myers III to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Before serving as the Interior Department's chief legal offic ...
Topics: Department of Interior, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, politics, ranching, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

You Know the Drill Bush Admin. Opens Nearly 9 Million Alaskan Acres to Oil Exploration		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
You Know the Drill Bush Admin. Opens Nearly 9 Million Alaskan Acres to Oil Exploration Interior Secretary Gale Norton approved a plan on Thursday that will open nearly 9 million acres of pristine land on Alaska's North Slope to oil exploration and drilling. She pledged that the exploration and production in the area, a section of the huge National Petroleum Reserve, would be done in an "e ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

The Scarlett Letters Readers Sound Off on Scarlett, Dean, and More		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Interior, elections, politics (all these topics)

Keen on Dean Babbitt Joins With Other Enviros to Endorse Dean		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Interior, elections, green living, politics (all these topics)

Interior Design An interview with Interior's Lynn Scarlett, one of the architects of Bush's 'new environmentalism'	Amanda Griscom	12 Jan 2004	Main Dish
An interview with Interior's Lynn Scarlett, one of the architects of Bush's "new environmentalism" By Amanda Griscom 12 Jan 2004 The people who make policy don't always make headlines. The Bush administration boasts more than a few strong-minded, behind-the-scenes strategists with almost as much influence as cabinet members. Lynn Scarlett is one of them. As assistant secretary of the Department of Interior's Office of Policy, Management, and Budget, Scarlett helps deter ...
Topics: Department of Interior, interview, politics (all these topics)

Interior Design Interior's Lynn Scarlett Defends Bush's 'New Environmentalism'		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Interior Design Interior's Lynn Scarlett Defends Bush's "New Environmentalism" When it comes to the environment, Lynn Scarlett may be the most influential Bush administration member you've never heard of. As an assistant secretary in the Interior Department, charged with analyzing rules and determining budgets throughout the agency, she has significant say over everything from mining to wildlife refuges. And as fo ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics (all these topics)

Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream Bush Admin. Rule Change Would Give a Boost to Mountaintop Mining		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream Bush Admin. Rule Change Would Give a Boost to Mountaintop Mining Mountaintop-removal mining is poised to get even easier thanks to a rule change proposed by the Bush administration yesterday. Significant chunks of Appalachia have already been devastated by this mining technique, which involves blasting off the t ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

The Grazers' Edge Bush Administration Wants to Roll Back Grazing Rules		08 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Grazers' Edge Bush Administration Wants to Roll Back Grazing Rules You'd think Bush administration officials might want to spend their Friday afternoons planning happy hours or trying to sneak out of the office early, like normal people, but no: They like to spend their Friday afternoons quietly rolling back environmental protections, hoping that the news will get lost over the weekend. This past Frida ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics, ranching, West (all these topics)

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