Salazar: the Grinch of Speciesville
Salazar's latest Grinchy move was when he agreed that lynx dispersing from Colorado's southern mountains into New Mexico deserve protection, but, so sorry, they can't have it just yet.
Salazar's latest Grinchy move was when he agreed that lynx dispersing from Colorado's southern mountains into New Mexico deserve protection, but, so sorry, they can't have it just yet.
hosted.ap.org | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 12.11.2009 | Denver
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Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver
Here's an international embarrassment waiting to happen. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not only planning to tag along with Obama in Copenhagen, he's going to be a keynote speaker.
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Do we want energy development on our public lands to intensify global warming or a national energy policy that promotes technologies that are renewable and create four times jobs as fossil fuels?
latimes.com | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to...
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department pl...
AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar moved Monday to prepare the nation's parks, refuges and endangered species for the onslaught of glob...
Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
In Today's Audio Report: Another win for coal companies; of green roofs & red tomatoes...PLUS: Town Hall Follies, now with Clean Coal!
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare.
Jake Brewer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Read as stated, this description leads one to believe that the U.S. government spent nearly $1.2M for 2 pounds of ham ...sliced.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.19.2009 | Green
Mountaintop removal has ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and depopulated and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green
Failed mining policy has destroyed our nation's natural heritage, ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin. And now Obama only wants to "regulate" it.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
As you read this column, court hearings in Ecuador are taking place where Chevron stands potentially responsible for $25 billion in damages to Ecuador's waterways and aquifers.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green
Mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, and it must be abolished, not regulated.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
In Today's Audio Report: Fires and bats and bears -- Oh My!; Congress to offer Cash For Clunkers; Some Democrats side with Republicans in stalling cli...
Will Bunch | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
McCain says that he may vote against an Obama appointee for the sole reason that the nominee made what strikes me as a fairly tepid criticism of the 40th president, in a comment that was really aimed at Bush.
Paul Helmke | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
A last-minute rule adopted by the Bush administration after the election forces states to allow loaded, concealed weapons in National Park lands within their borders regardless of state law.
Grist | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
Salazar pledged to "clean up the mess" at the Department of Interior, which has seen controversies over non-collection of oil royalties and an embarra...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green
Recognizing that poverty rates on reservations are twice the national average, Native groups called for support to "operate a new crop of renewable electricity generating infrastructure."
Michael Markarian | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
Obama has pledged to make progress for animal welfare and environmental stewardship, and we hope these appointees will prove to be an excellent team to help him meet these crucial goals.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.
Elissa Altman | Posted 10.12.2008 | Living
Without a doubt. So, after the hideous spectacle of the convention was over, I did what most food writers do when they're mildly hysterical: I fled for the safety of my kitchen.
Thomas Frank | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
The Interior Department's bungle-dee-botch is what government looks like when you make it "market-based," as Bush once put it. This kind of government answers not to the public but to the party with the most money.
Nicole Rosmarino | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver