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Interior Department Scandal

Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Obama Cabinet, Wildlands, Public Lands, Oil Drilling, Green Transition, Obama's Cabinet, Salazar, Blm, Bureau Land Management, Wilderness Protection, Cabinet Appointments, National Parks, Interior Deparment, Ken Salazar Secretary of the Interior, Cheney Energy Task Force, Nrdc, Roan Plateau, NRDC Action Fund, Obama Administration, Obama Administration Environmental Policy, Bush Environmental Policy, Interior Department Corruption, Environmental Protection, Colorado, Ken Salazar and Interior Department, Interior Department Scandal, Bush Administration, Bush Ending Environmental Protections, Land Protection, Tom Gnojek, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Green News
Frances Beinecke

As Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has to send a powerful signal that the era of unethical behavior and unchecked industry influence is over.

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So Many Questions, So Few Answers

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Energy, Interior Department Scandal, Oil and Gas Leasing, Ethics, Politics News
Carl Pope

It's not surprising that Congressman Ed Markey has launched an investigation of oil company involvement in the Bush administration federal oil-and-gas...

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Interior Department Scandal

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Interior Department Scandal, Economy, Political Cartoons, Business News
Jeff Danziger

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A Very 21st-Century Scandal

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Energy, Bush Administration, Interior Department Scandal, Big Oil, Scandal, Gale Norton, Politics News
Carl Pope

Instead of business providing men who worked for the government with women, it was women who worked for the government that were having sex with oil-industry agents.

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Warning: Wrecking Crew at Work

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Corruption, Department of Interior, Political Corruption, Bush Administration, Interior Department Scandal, Free Market, Politics News
Thomas Frank

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.

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Interior Department Probe Reveals Oil-Related Corruption, "Culture Of Substance Abuse And Promiscuity"

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Department of Interior, Interior Department Scandal, Oil Trysts, Green News

WASHINGTON — Government brokers responsible for collecting billions of dollars in federal oil royalties operated in a "culture of substance abus...

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