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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)

Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge isn't on the oil-and-gas chopping block under the terms of the current behemoth energy bill, but the rest of the state isn't quite as lucky: The Bush administration will announce today that it plans to open 8.8 million acres of Ala ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

They Blinded Me With Pseudo Science Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient		12 Nov 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Interior, Florida, Missouri River, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Rove V. Waders White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon		10 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Rove V. Waders White House Political Maneuvering Could Hurt Northwest Salmon President Bush lost in Oregon and Washington in the 2000 election, but his team is working to ensure that he fares better in the Pacific Northwest in 2004 -- and that may mean trouble for salmon. Bush's top strategy honcho, Karl Rove, has been making quiet trips to t ...
Topics: Department of Interior, fishing, food and agriculture, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Whitman's Sampler	Suzy Becker	23 Jun 2003	Ha.

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

The Endangered Endangered Species Act		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Endangered Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act is so cash-strapped that it is effectively "broken," the Interior Department announced yesterday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blamed the financial trouble on the act's "critical habitat" provision, which requires federal agencies to consult wit ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Dry Idea Rolls on		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dry Idea Rolls on The U.S. Interior Department has identified areas around the county that are likely to face conflicts over water shortages in the next 25 years, including the usual suspects (Los Angeles, Calif., Denver, Colo., and Phoenix, Ariz.) as well as some new hotspots: the Gulf Coast of Texas, North Dakota's Red River Valley, and Western cities from Bend, Ore. to Albuquerque, N ...
Topics: Department of Interior, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, West (all these topics)

Black and Blue Canyon		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Black and Blue Canyon In a move that environmentalists and others fear could set a dangerous precedent, the U.S. Department of the Interior has ceded control over the waters in Colorado's Gunnison National Park, allowing the state to sell it to cities. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said the decision to hand over control of the river (which was awarded to the federal government when the Black Canyon ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, education, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Coal Play		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Play It would seem that preemptive measures are all the rage among anti-environmentalists these days. In Alaska, Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is awaiting the Interior Department's response to a request he made last year (while still a senator) to prohibit the establishment of new wilderness areas in the state. "Congress set aside all this wilderness, ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Private Eyed		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Private Eyed The Bush administration is considering privatizing about 70 percent of National Park Service jobs, according to the Interior Department. The jobs in question range from maintenance workers to secretaries to scientists. Law enforcement officers, managers, and most park rangers would not be affected. About 4 percent of current employees could lose their jobs. Interior Deputy Assistant Secr ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has claimed that strict environmental laws are hindering oil and gas exploration in the West -- thereby compromising national security by forcing ongoing dependence on foreign energy sources. But a new federal study undermines that claim by showing that most oil and gas reserves on Western federal lands co ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Point. Click. Ignore.		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Point. Click. Ignore. One-click activism has been a one-click failure with the Bush administration thus far. The Interior Department, for example, received 360,000 public comments (the huge majority of them sent by email) about the future of snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks; 80 percent of the writers asked that the government ban the snowmobiles. Last week, however, the administrati ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Bambi Vs. Thumper		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Bambi Vs. Thumper The Bush administration's plan to expand fossil fuel exploration in the West ran into an obstacle Wednesday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the Interior Department from allowing energy prospecting on thousands of acres of public land in Utah. The ruling halted a project by a seismic exploration company to search for oil and gas reserves in Utah's Arches National Pa ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, national parks, politics, Utah (all these topics)

Bed Head		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Bed Head An Interior Department appeals board has upheld its earlier ruling that three of the leases for a coal bed methane (CBM) drilling project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin were issued without adequate environmental review. Environmentalists hope the decision will help block pending leases for such drilling on ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

Ceci N'est Pas Une Citizens Group		12 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ceci N'est Pas Une Citizens Group U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has nixed the idea of a citizens panel to oversee the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, to the dismay of many environmentalists. Green groups and oil company watchdogs have called for the creation of such a group, similar to the citizens councils mandated by Congress after the 1989 Exxon V ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Sayonara, Sonora		09 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sayonara, Sonora Environmental organizations have petitioned the Bush administration to increase protection for wildlife in its proposed management plan for California's Sonoran Desert, saying the plan favors commerce and recreation at the expense of conservation. The enviros say the proposal violates a host of federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Wilderness Act, by cutting protection for th ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Water Shipped Down		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Water Shipped Down To the dismay of environmentalists, the U.S. Interior Department approved yesterday a $1 billion, 50-year project to store water beneath the Mojave Desert, in what would be one of California's largest water storage facilities. Southern California's Metropolitan Water District would store surplus Colorado River water in an aquifer under the desert; during dry years, the water ...
Topics: California, Department of Interior, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Flow-rida		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Flow-rida The Bush administration yesterday revised its proposed rules for the $7.8 billion renovation of the Florida Everglades, with environmentalists greeting the changes as imperfect but undeniably better than the last draft. Under the new rules, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District would ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Quick Draw, McGraw		25 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Quick Draw, McGraw A tiff has broken out between the Department of Interior and the U.S. EPA over proposed gas drilling in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The energy industry would like to drill more than 39,000 new wells in the area, a plan enthusiastically backed by the Bush administration, especially in the wake of its defeat over oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildli ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, US EPA, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Lies, Lies, and Videotape		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lies, Lies, and Videotape A picture is worth a thousand words: So reasoned Interior Secretary Gale Norton when she mailed copies of a videotape of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to major television stations and encouraged news producers to use the footage in their coverage of the debate over drilling. (In contrast to videos of the Arctic Refuge produced by conservat ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Ed Markey, energy, oil, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Nothing New		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Nothing New In what was billed as her first major environmental speech of the year, Interior Secretary Gale Norton called Wednesday for "a new environmentalism" in which local residents and landowners, not just the government, would take responsibility for protecting the Earth. Norton also called for an environmentalism that did not threaten jobs. The Interior secretary said that a number ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

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