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Irreparable Damage: Senate Must Block OSM Nominee Pizarchik Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Mountaintop Removal, 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Coal Ash, Cbs, Ken Salazar, Coal, Department of the Interior, Green News
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.

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Wild Horse Round Up Approved in Nevada By BLM

AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada, Ken Salazar, U.S. District Court, Wild Horses, Reno, Denver News

CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Bureau of Land Management approved the removal of 2,500 wild horses from the range near Reno on Monday as opposition gro...

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Three Reasons for Hope in Copenhagen

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Steven Chu, Carol Browner, Congress, Copenhagen 2009, John Holdren, Tom Vilsack, United Nations, President Obama, Gary Locke, Nobel Peace Prize, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Unfccc, Pearl Harbor, Green News
Alexia Parks

The requirement for the U.S. Congress to sign off on any document produced at Copenhagen for it to legally bind us to those agreements, is another reason why I'm hopeful.

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Salazar: Oil Companies Like An Arm Of The Republican Party

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Interior Department, Utah Oil Leases, Natural Gas Companies, Ken Salazar, Republican Party, Salazar Oil Lease, Oil Companies, Colorado, Denver News

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

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BLM Postpones Wild Horse Roundup To Conduct Environmental Survey

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Ken Salazar, Interior Department, Utah, Blm, Wild Horses, Wild Horse Roundup, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed plans to round up about 185 wild horses from a western Utah herd. The agency ...

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

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Public Lands, Green River, Fossil Fuels, Department of Interior, Oil Leases, Oil Shale, Ken Salazar, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Green News
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?

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Bill Ritter Retirement Announcement: 'Intensely Personal' Decision Will Free Him To Make 'Tough Decisions' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Ritter Reelection, Ritter Colorado Governor, Colorado Governor Not Reelection, Governor Ritter, Bill Ritter Governor, Denver News, Ritter Retire, Michael Bennet, Ritter Not to Seek Reelection, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Ritter Not Running for Governor, Ed Perlmutter, Ritter Retires, Bill Ritter Retires, Governor Bill Ritter Colorado, Andrew Romanoff, Ritter Press Conference, Colorado Governor Retires, Bill Ritter Not Running, Bill Ritter Governor Colorado, Bill RItter Reelection, Governor Bill Ritter Email Address, Governor of Colorado Bill Ritter, Ken Salazar, Bill Ritter Colorado, Bill Ritter, John Hickenlooper, Bill Ritter Withdrawal, Ritter, Bill Ritter Press Conference, Bill Ritter Retiring, Ritter Announcement, Video, Denver News

An emotional Bill Ritter addressed the media Wednesday morning to officially announce that he would not be seeking a second term as Governor of Colora...

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Bush-Era Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton Worked With Shell To

latimes.com | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Shell Gale Norton, Gale Norton, George W. Bush, Department of Interior, Ken Salazar, Oil Drilling, Barack Obama, Shell Oil, Denver News

Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to...

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Ken Salazar Promises Concrete Procedural Reforms In Second Year As Interior Chief

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Gray Wolves, Interior Department, George W. Bush, Mineral Management Service, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, National Wildlife Federation, Statue of Liberty, Ken Salazar, Wildearth Guardians, Oil and Gas Drilling, Endangered Species Act, Eric Holder, Denver News

DENVER — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar started on the job a year ago pledging to clean up an agency hit by scandals and assailed by critics as ...

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Tikkun Olam -- Choosing Between Two Candidates

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: United States Senate, Michael Bennet, Andrew Romanoff, Colorado Senate, Jewish, Tikkun Olam, Mike Miles, Hillary Clinton, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Denver News
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?

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Salazar: the Grinch of Speciesville

Nicole Rosmarino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Department of Interior, Endangered Species, Lynx, Ken Salazar, Extinction, Wildlife, New Mexico, Outdoors, Colorado, Denver News
Nicole Rosmarino

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.

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Activists, Celebrities Oppose Plan To Round Up Thousands Of Horses With Helicopters

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Wild Horses, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, Wild Horse Opposition, Sheryl Crow, Ed Harris, Bill Maher, Political Humor, Denver News

SPARKS, Nev. — One of the most stirring symbols of the American West – mustangs thundering freely across the range – could be headin...

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Obama Is "Bush Light"

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Air America, Pap Attack, Flip Flop, Tim Geithner, David Axelrod, Mike Papantonio, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Stanford University, Ken Salazar, Policy, Ring of Fire, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

The engine driving the impending train wreck for Obama and his spineless advisors is that he made promises that turned out millions of supporters. That promise was that we were going to see "change." Soon we began to see "Bush Lite."

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Sheryl Crow Tries To Ride To The Rescue Of Wild Horses In The West

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Sheryl Crow, Interior Department, Sheryl Crow Activism, Wild Horses, Blm, Sheryl Crow Horses, Nevada, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Political Humor, Denver News

RENO, Nev. — Sheryl Crow has spoken out against the war in Iraq and in support of embryonic stem-cell research and efforts to combat global warm...

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Oil And Gas Say They're Not Drilling In West Because Ken Salazar Is Too Tough On Them

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Interior Department, Environmental Regulations, New Energy, Salt Lake City, Natural Gas, Ken Salazar, Oil, Utah, Natural Gas Regulations, Breaking News on Oil Drilling, Denver News

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...

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Oil and Gas Leases: Ken Salazar Announces Tougher Drilling Regulations

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Department of Interior, Oil and Gas Leasing, Public Lands, Ken Salazar, Bush Administration, Oil and Gas Leasing Regulations, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced policy changes he said will bring more scrutiny and a greater public voice in...

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Our Water Crisis: Too Big For Even a Czar

Susan J. Marks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Obama Czars, John Tubbs, David Hayes, Anne Castle, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Czars, Water Crisis, Cameron Davis, Green News
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.

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Bill Ritter Retires: Colorado Governor Won't Seek Reelection

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Bill Ritter Retires, Michael Bennet, Andrew Romanoff, John Hickenlooper, Colorado Governor Retires, Ken Salazar, Ed Perlmutter, Bill Ritter, Governor Ritter, Bill Ritter Governor, Bill RItter Reelection, Ritter Retires, Ritter Not Running for Governor, Governor Bill Ritter Colorado, Ritter Not to Seek Reelection, Ritter Retire, Bill Ritter Governor Colorado, Ritter Colorado Governor, Ritter Reelection, Colorado Governor Not Reelection, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Bill Ritter Colorado, Governor Bill Ritter Email Address, Bill Ritter Withdrawal, Governor of Colorado Bill Ritter, Bill Ritter Not Running, Video, Denver News

Update: The Denver Post reports that Governor Ritter briefed his cabinet Wednesday morning in preparation for his 11:00 AM announcement about his fut...

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

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Garfield County, Split Estate, FRAC, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Ken Salazar, Fracking, Halliburton, Colorado, Denver News

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...

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Wild Horse Roundup To Begin In Nevada Amid Protest

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Calico Mountains, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Diane Feinstein, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

LAS VEGAS — A two-month capture of about 2,500 wild horses from public and private lands in northern Nevada began Monday amid protests that the ...

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Colorado Endangered Species List May Expand

The Denver Post | Bruce Finley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Lynx, Rocky Mountain National Park, George Bush, American Pika, Fish and Wildlife Service, Wolverine, Colorado, Endagrered Species, Ken Salazar, Denver News

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

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Wild Horses Shot and Killed In Nevada

hosted.ap.org | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Horses Relocation, Nevada, Department of Interior, Ken Salazar, Blm, Wild Horses, Wild Mustangs, Denver News

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PolitiFact: Glenn Beck Wrong On Claim About Obama Cabinet

PolitiFact | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama Cabinet, J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Michael Cembalest, Glenn Beck Obama Cabinet, Tom Vilsack, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama Administration, Obama Cabinet Private Sector, Shaun Donovan, Gary Locke, Steven Chu, Glenn Beck, Timothy Geithner, Ken Salazar, Obama's Business Blind Spot, Politics News

Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck has seized on a claim circulating on the Internet to argue that the Obama administration has little understanding o...

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What Makes a Candidate?

Faith Winter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Ken Salazar, John Hickenlooper, Bill Ritter, Ed Perlmutter, Denver News
Faith Winter

Ask people what makes a viable candidate and most will answer, "experience." In these volatile times, the voting public is wary of electing someone who hasn't been around the block a few times.

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Sheryl Crow Slams Salazar Over Wild Horses

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Mustangs, Wild Horses, Western Horses, Sheryl Crow Horses, Bureau of Land Management, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Cload Foundation, Sheryl Crow, Denver News

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...

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