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Chairwoman of the Boardwalk
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22 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Chairwoman of the Boardwalk The U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System could get a $56.5 million budget increase in the next fiscal year, according to an announcement made yesterday by Interior Secretary Gale Norton. The proposed increase would represent an 18 percent budget hike and would be earmarked for maintenance and renovation of such features as boardwalks, trails, and levies. Although it ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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No Comment
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14 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| No Comment Here's the latest bit of unconscionable news from the U.S. Department of the Interior: Interior Secretary Gale Norton failed to submit comments from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blasting a proposed Army Corps of Engineers plan to relax wetlands protection rules. As a result, the Army Corps will announce its final ver ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, environmental justice, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wetlands (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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Gopher It!
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29 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Gopher It! In what could turn into an unprecedented deal to protect imperiled animals and plants in the U.S., the Interior Department and several environmental groups are working on an agreement to safeguard more than two dozen species under the Endangered Species Act. The agreement would cover such species as the coastal cutthroat trout in Oregon and Washington, the Big Cypress ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, environmental non-government organizations, wildlife (all these topics) |
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National Historic Landfill
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28 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| National Historic Landfill In what must be a flub, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton yesterday named a toxic dump in Fresno, Calif., as a national historic landmark. Officials weren't sure how the landfill was nominated for the prestigious designation. The 145-acre Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill is also listed as a Superfund site, with cleanup costs estimated at $38 million. City c ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round
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01 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to reconsider her decision not to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Norton argued that the lizard has plenty of public land on which to live in southwestern Arizona ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, California, Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Irrigation Irritation
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25 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Irrigation Irritation U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said yesterday that she had the legal authority to release a small amount of irrigation water for farmers to use in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border. All irrigation water from Upper Klamath Lake has been cut off since April to protect endangered suckerfish and threatened coho salmon ... |
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| Topics: California, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Is That What Friends Are For?
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Suzy Becker |
11 Jun 2001 |
Ha. |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, politics (all these topics) |
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