Ken Salazar

Ken Salazar Fires Back At Oil Companies Over Western Leases

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver


WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like a...

Sheryl Crow Slams Salazar's Wild Horse Plan

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 11.22.2009 | Denver


RENO, Nev. — Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as in...

Wild Horse Activists Fly Banner Over Denver Calling Salazar "Slaughter Czar"

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver


Wild horse advocates tried to challenge a federal relocation proposal by flying a banner over Denver this afternoon that called Interior Secretary K...

Ken Salazar Blamed By Oil And Gas Companies For Scant Interest In New Drilling Projects

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver


SALT LAKE CITY — Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of Preside...

Obama Worse Than Bush On Endangered Species Protection

The Examiner | Jean Williams | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar's appointment by President Obama has been controversial from the beginning. His record on environmental and wildlif...

Salazar Cleans Up Bush-Era Cronyism in Dirty Oil-Shale Program

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


Frances Beinecke

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?

Josh Penry, Scott McInnis Try To Tie Bill Ritter To Obama On Oil Shale

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Gary Harmon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver


The two Grand Junction Republicans hoping to replace Gov. Bill Ritter said a federal oil shale decision supported by Ritter offers little hope to the ...

Ken Salazar Questions The Legality Of Bush-Era Oil Leasing Policies

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver


SALT LAKE CITY — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of Presi...

Our Water Crisis: Too Big For Even a Czar

Susan J. Marks | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Susan J. Marks

Water is the new oil, except there is no alternative. We can't live without it. The water crisis is here and now in our backyards, and in our homes.

Ken Salazar's Wild Horse Plan Fuels Accusations That He's In The Pocket Of Ranchers

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver


RENO, Nev. — A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secr...

Bush-Era Interior Secretary Gale Norton Worked With Shell On Strategy For Controversial 11th-Hour Deals: LA Times

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...

Eva Longoria and Ken Salazar Lobby for Museum for Latino Culture

Liz Glover | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment


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Michael Bennet Widens His Fund-Raising Lead With Another Million-Dollar Quarter

Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver


Senator Michael Bennet became the lastof the major state-wide candidates to announce his third quarter fund-raising totals Tuesday. As expected, Benn...

Natural Gas Documentary Affects Garfield County Commissioners On Federal Legislation (VIDEO)

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.13.2009 | Denver


GLENWOOD SPRINGS -- Everyone was a film critic Monday at a somewhat tense screening of the new anti-gas-drilling documentary "Split Estate" for the Ga...

US Blocks Drilling At 60 Sites In Utah -- Approval Process Under Bush "Mishandled"

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near nati...

Tikkun Olam -- Choosing Between Two Candidates

Nancy Cronk | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver


Nancy Cronk

Ken Salazar, like Mike Miles, believed in "tikkun olam" (Hebrew for "saving the world"), but he also had great marketing. Lesson learned! But what about Bennet and Romanoff?

Ken Salazar Plans To Transfer Overpopulated Western Wild Horses To Sanctuaries In East

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...

Irreparable Damage: Senate Must Block OSM Nominee Pizarchik Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

Given the irreparable damage of his mining record, Pizarchik's entrenched support of the coal industry suggests that the OSM would continue its decades-old tradition of lawlessness and betrayal of coalfield residents.

Colorado Endangered Species List May Expand

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver


From wolverines to black-tailed prairie dogs, dozens of species here and across the nation are being re-evaluated for possible threatened or endangere...

6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...

Oil Shale Regulations: Judge Grants More Time To Resolve Controversial Bush-Era Rules

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver


A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environ...

Is It a Problem When the Party Decides?

Seth Masket | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver


Seth Masket

Think about recent examples of state or national party leaders trying to pick nominees before primary voters had a chance to weigh in. Do voters ever push back?

Obama Endorses Bennet For Senate

The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver


President Barack Obama endorsed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet today, throwing the force of the White House into a Democratic primary battle that officially...

Ken Salazar Gets Ready For Global Warming With Climate Change Response Council

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...

Ritter: Choosing Romanoff Would Have Been Easy Political Move, Supports Bennet

The Denver Post | Tim Hoover | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver


Gov. Bill Ritter says he would have been better off politically if he had picked former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff to fill the U.S. Senate seat vac...