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MMS' Failure Will Continue Without Real Reform

Rep. Edolphus Towns | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Interior Department, Bp, Congress, Oil Spill, Edolphus Towns, Congressional Oversight, BP Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, Mms, Politics News
Rep. Edolphus Towns

The BP oil spill was just the latest chapter in a long history of regulatory and ethical failures at the Interior Department and the Minerals Management Service.

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Rep. Coffman Attacks Salazar For Oil Policies, Contradicts Years Of Rhetoric

Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Interior Department, GOP Hypocrisy, Mike Coffman, Ken Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, House Natural Resources Committee, Environmental Protection, Denver News

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman's scathing attack on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday at a House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing on the D...

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Green Groups Calls For Salazar's Resignation

Juliet Eilperin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Mineral Management Service, Ken Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, Ken Salazar Resignation, Green News

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Gulf Oil Spill Cause: BP Tells Feds Key Areas Probed, Says There Were 'Combination Of Failures'

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bp Oil Spill Investigation, White House Oil Spill Commission, Bp Blowout Preventer, Epa Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, Bp Department of Interior, White House Oil Spill Response, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

WASHINGTON — Marking five disastrous weeks, BP readied yet another attempt to slow the oil gushing into the Gulf on Tuesday as a federal report ...

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Gulf Oil Spill: New Drilling Projects Move Forward Despite Moratorium

The New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: New Offshore Drilling, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Offshore Drilling Moratorium, Offshore Drilling Waivers, Oil Spill, New Offshore Wells, New Drilling Projects, Ken Salazar, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

WASHINGTON -- In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial ty...

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Lucia Graves

Dems Demand That Salazar Stop Dragging His Heels And Investigate BP Whistleblower Allegations

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Salazar, Ken Salazar, Interior-Secretary, Atlantis Rig, Ken Abbott, Whistleblower Ken Abbott, Gulf Oil Spill, Atlantis Oil Rig, Atlantis, BP Oil Spill, Oil Spill, BP Atlantis, Green News, Oil, Green News

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar still has yet to conduct a formal interview with Ken Abbott, a whistleblower from BP's Atlantis rig where operators are...

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Gulf Oil Spill: Salazar Threatens To 'Push' Out BP, But Offers No Terms Or Deadlines

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Salazar Bp, Oil Spill Response, Oil Spill, Salazar Oil Spill, Green News, Oil, Deepwater Horizon, Ken Salazar, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News

HOUSTON -- The U.S. government will move aside BP from the operation to try to halt the Gulf of Mexico oil spill if it decides the company is not perf...

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Marcus Baram

Interior Secretaries Under Bush And Obama Exposed By House Panel For Lax Oversight Of Oil Drilling

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Ken Salazar, BP Oil Spill, Salazar Oil Drilling, Gale Norton, Deepwater Horizon, Gale Norton Drilling, Dirk Kempthorne, Gulf Oil Spill, Video, Green News

Scroll down for the memo A tough new memo from a House committee probing the Gulf oil spill exposes the Interior Department under Presidents Bush and...

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Ken Salazar, Interior Department, Finalize Onshore Oil, Gas Reforms

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Dennis Webb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Bob Bennett, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Oil and Gas, John Barrasso, Drilling Regulations, Denver News

The Bureau of Land Management on Monday finalized onshore oil and gas leasing reforms, which two Republican U.S. senators say they hope to block throu...

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Colorado Oil Shale Litigation: Judge Warns Interior Department Not To Delay

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Oil Shale, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, Gulf Oil Spill, Shell Oil, Denver News

Nine is enough. That's the message from a judge after the federal government requested a ninth delay in responding to two suits filed in January 20...

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Obama to open up 1.8 million Alaskan acres to drilling

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Teshekpuk Lake, Leases, Caribou, Blm, Obama Administration, Birds, Obama, Audubon Alaska, Ken Salazar, White House, Alaska National Petroleum Reserve, Oil Drilling, Alaska, Interior Department, North Slope, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve while pro...

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Reclaiming Open Spaces in Our Urban Landscape

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Epa, Compton Creek, America's Great Outdoor Initiative, Lisa Jackson, Occidental College, Antonio Villaraigosa, La River, Lisa Jackson EPA, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, President Obama, Nancy Sutley, LEED Certification, Ken Salazar, Los Angeles, Los Angeles News
Antonio Villaraigosa

President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative to develop a conservation and recreation agenda that would use community-based soluti...

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Anatomy of an Oil Disaster: Heckuva Job, Kenny!

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Department of Interior, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, Politics News
Nikolas Kozloff

Ken Salazar is hardly the most appropriate bureaucrat to carry out such an ambitious agenda which would necessarily entail a switch from fossil fuels to alternative energy.

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Open Letter to Shakira: A Call for Hemispheric Unity

Melinda Gopher | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Chuck Strahl, Hill 57, Cross Border, Arizona Immigration Law, Shakira, Melinda Gopher, Jay Treaty, Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, Immigration, Ken Salazar, UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous People, Rocky Boy, Haiti, Hemispheric Unity, Manitou Lake, Melinda Gopher for Congress, Ojibwe, World News
Melinda Gopher

The Arizona immigration law is a symptom of a lack of accountability by the U.S. and Canada to indigenous people. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People changes that.

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Ken Salazar Calls Gulf Coast Disaster A 'Grave Scenario' And 'Very Catastrophic' (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Video, Barack Obama Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Salazar Oil Spill, Salazar Meet the Press, Gulf Coast Spill, Ken Salazar, Green News

(AP/Huffington Post) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the potential environmental outlook for the Gulf Coast oil spill is "a very grave scenario...

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Feds: Oil Shale Drilling "Not Ready For Prime Time"

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Oil Shale, Oil Drilling, Department of Interior, Ken Salazar, Energy, Petroleum Companies, Unconventional Fuels Conference, Rocky Mountains, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Petroleum companies' plans to tap the Rocky Mountains' abundant oil shale reserves are "not ready for prime time," a senior leg...

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Cape Wind Project: Everything You Need To Know (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Slidepollajax, Green Energy, Wind Power, Cape Cod, Cape Wind, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Cape Wind Project, Cape Wind Farm, Green News

After 9 years of federal review, the Obama administration has approved Cape Wind, the nation's first offshore wind farm which will be built in the Nan...

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Bill Barrett Corp and the Halliburton Loophole Threaten Rockies

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: West Tavaputs Plateau, Oil Spill, Water Pollution, Roan Plateau, Department of Interior, Bill Barrett Corp., Halliburton Loophole, Bureau of Land Management, Hydraulic Fracturing, Ken Salazar, Nine Mile Canyon, Dry Canyon Compressor Station, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

The use of hydraulic fracturing to get at hard-to-reach hydrocarbon supplies has lots of folks wondering whether the next fossil fuel disaster might happen in the Rocky Mountains.

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National Parks Vital to Preserving America's Great Outdoors

Tom Kiernan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, National Parks Service, Conservation, America's Great Outdoor Initiative, Ken Salazar, National Parks, Green News
Tom Kiernan

We hope the Obama Administration makes national parks a cornerstone in any forward-thinking initiative on public lands.

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Is Ken Salazar Trying to Soak Colorado Springs?

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Department of Interior, Water Projects, Ken Salazar, Colorado Springs, Pueblo Colorado, Denver News
Sean Paige

Did Interior Secretary Ken Salazar have some direct involvement in the exorbitant rates the Bureau of Reclamation wants to charge Colorado Springs for storing water in Pueblo Reservoir?

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Frank Rich On Oil Spill: Obama Must Come Clean And Clean House

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bp, Frank Rich, 9/11, Misssissippi, Obama, Gulf Oil Spill, Democrats, Energy Policy, Offshore Oil Drilling, Ken Salazar, Government, Alabama, White House, Louisiana, Rand Paul, Oil Spill, Gop, Florida, Sharron Angle, Gulf of Mexico, Federal Response, Tea Party, Republicans, Mms, Politics News

In this 9/11, it's not just the future of the gulf coast, energy policy or his presidency that's in jeopardy. What's also being tarred daily by the gu...

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Joe Barton Is the Republican Energy Policy

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, Environment, Joe Barton, Ken Salazar, Bp, Democrats, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Republicans-Energy, Green News
Taylor Marsh

The short take on Republican energy policy is sour and simple: let the birds die.

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The Real Cost of Cape Wind

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Greenpeace International, Cape Wind, Wind Farm, Nantucket Sound, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Deval Patrick, Cape Wind Project, Patrick Kennedy, BP Oil Spill, Ken Salazar, Audra Parker, Gulf Coast, Alliance to Protect Our Sound, Green News
Susan Deily-Swearingen

I don't see how we can, in good conscience, oppose a project that could lead our country towards a greener economy and lifestyle.

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Obama Falls Short on BP Oil Leak in Address

John Dougherty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Epa, Bruce Babbitt, Bp, Oil, Obama, Ken Salazar, Senate, Dougherty, Interior Minerals Management Servicem, Arizona Politics, Politics News
John Dougherty

Breaking the current "fox-guarding-the-henhouse" regulatory structure is essential in meeting the President's laudable goal of creating a renewable energy-based economy.

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U.S. Looking To Get More From Oil, Natural Gas Leases

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Interior Department, Energy Leases, Natural Gas Leases, Energy Lease Study, Green News, Department of Interior, Oil Leases, Ken Salazar, Ken Salazar and Interior Department, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department says it will study how other countries collect oil and natural gas royalties to determine whether the Unite...

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