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Garfield County Oil And Gas Office Undermanned, Overwhelmed By Increase In Oil Paperwork

The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent | John Colson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Garfield County, Oil Drinking Water, Colorado, Natural Gas, Oil Drilling, Oil, Fracking, Garfield County Oil and Gas, Denver News

The department charged with keeping an eye on Garfield County's oil and gas industry remains among the smallest in county government. The department ...

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Shell Wins Federal Approval To Drill For Oil Off Alaska Coast

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Camden Bay, Leases, Beaufort Sea, Shell, Point Thompson Alaska, Open-Water Drilling, Mms, Exxon Valdez, Point Thompson, Sierra Club, Oil Drilling, Minerals Management Service, Alaska Coast, Drilling, Oil, Permits, Alaska, Interior Department, Green News

The Interior Department has given Shell approval to drill oil exploration wells in two leaseholds in the Beaufort Sea, which could lead to the first d...

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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

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

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Conservation, Natural Gas, Ken Salazar, Oil Drilling, Drilling Blocked in Utah, Utah, Green News

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

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

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil Shale, Gale Norton, Mesa County, Colorado, Department of Justice, Oil Drilling, Ken Salazar, Shell Oil, Denver News

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...

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Santorum 2012 Run Against "Injurious" Obama Considered

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, 2012 Presidential Election, Oil Drilling, Anwr, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Health Care Legislation, Reconciliation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Politics News

Rick Santorum affirmed on an RNC conference call -- aimed at attacking Arlen Specter -- that he's considering a run for president in 2012 -- because, ...

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BP Says It Has Made 'Giant' New Oil Discovery

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Bp, Gas, Crude Oil Prices, BP Oil, Tiber Well, British Petroleum, Gulf of Mexico Oil, Oil Companies, Tiber, Oil Industry, Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Oil Prices, Oil, Gulf of Mexico, Oil in the Gulf of Mexico, World News

Oil giant BP says it has made a "giant" new oil discovery in its fields in the Gulf of Mexico....

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America's Other Foreign Oil: Seeing Canada's Tar Sands Up Close

Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Oil Addiction, Oil Drilling, Fuel Efficiency, Alberta, First Nation, Canada, Clean Energy, Dirty Fuels, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Americans don't understand the environmental and human consequences of feeding our insatiable appetite for fuel from closer to home: Canada.

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Why We Need a Bold Vision for Preserving Our Wilderness

Robert Redford | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil Drilling, Wilderness, Clean Energy, Wallace Stegner, Ken Salazar, Wilderness Protection, Utah, Robert Redford Utah, Green News
Robert Redford

Places I viewed as symbols of this so-called Promised Land have disappeared into clear cuts, drilling fields, and open-pit mines. What do our children inherit from this irretrievable loss? Pictures of how it used to be?

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Protests Over Amazon Escalate In Peru

AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Protests, Peru, Amazon, Land, Oil, Gas, Indians, Amazon Indians, Oil Drilling, Logging, Mining, Large-Scale Farming, Alan Garcia, Bagua, Green News

BAGUA, Peru — President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sen...

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An Arctic Agenda for Secretary Salazar

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska, Ken Salazar, Shell Oil, Arctic, Environment, Polar Bears, Climate Change, Oil Drilling, Global Warming, Green News
Trip Van Noppen

Here's what the President and Sec. Salazar can do to make a decisive break from the "drill here, drill now" policies of the Bush administration and show Americans a new day has dawned in the Arctic.

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The Great American Drilling Boom Is Over

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 04.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Oil, Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Gas Drilling, Business News

The great American drilling boom is over. The number of oil and gas rigs deployed to tap new energy supplies across the country has plunged to less ...

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Montana Drilling Plan Approved By Bush Administration

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 01.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Montana, Bush Administration, Oil Drilling, Bush Midnight Regulations, Bush Drilling, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Bush administration has approved a plan that could allow more than 18,000 natural gas wells to be drilled in southeastern ...

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Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.18.2009 | 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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Bush Admin Wants To Open Tens Of Thousands Of Acres Near National Parks For Drilling

New York Times | FELICITY BARRINGER | Posted 12.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Drilling, Bureau of Land Management, Bush Administration, Oil Drilling, National Parks, Green News

The Bureau of Land Management has expanded its oil and gas lease program in eastern Utah to include tens of thousands of acres on or near the boundari...

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The Thrill of the Drill

Lynn Voedisch | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Energy, T. Boone Pickens, John McCain, Oil Drilling, Drill Here Drill Now, Energy Independence, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Home News
Lynn Voedisch

Many hybrid cars are already on the roads but alternative energy is about more than new automobiles. Wind power is something we can capture right now and it is being used in fields and off remote shores.

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Sarah Palin and Boone Pickens: Birds of a Feather

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy Policy, T. Boone Pickens, Wind Power, Politics, Todd Palin, Pickens Plan, Green, Drill Baby Drill, Oil Drilling, Natural Gas Vehicles, Global Warming, Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
Josh Nelson

As has been pointed out repeatedly, Sarah Palin does not "get" the energy situation. Truth be told, she probably "gets" the energy situation about as well as Pickens himself gets global warming.

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Picky About the Pickens Plan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, George Bush, Energy Prices, Clean Coal, George W. Bush, Energy Crisis, Clean Energy, Big Oil Profits, Green Energy, Energy Policy, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, Texas, Corn Prices, Oil Drilling, Green Technology, 2008 Presidential Race, T.Boone Pickens, Oil, Oil Prices, Natural Gas, President Bush, Pickens Plan, Green News
Christiana Wyly

"Son, I used to be IN the Oil Lobby! We don't have to worry about them. We the people are more powerful than any lobby any day of the week."

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Suddenly Obama's Auto-Policies Matter: Michigan Is The New Florida

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, 2008 Elections, Unemployment Rate, High Oil Prices, Fuel Efficiency, United Auto Workers, Obama Working Class Voters, 2008 Recession, Detroit News, CAFE Standards, Working Class, Offthebus, Unemployment, Obama Swing States, Oil Drilling, Bailout, Hybrid Cars, Recession Fears, Plug-in Hybrids, HuffPost OffTheBus, Swing Voters, Michigan, Fuel Economy Standards, Obama Working Class Whites, Job Losses, Fuel Economy, John McCain, Michigan Delegates, Auto Extremist, Detroit Free Press, Manufacturing, Voting Record, 2008 Election, Recession, Barack Obama, American Manufacturing, Pollsters, Barack Obama 2008, Swing States, Mccain Swing States, John McCain 2008, Cnn, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Fox News, Peter De Lorenzo, Auto Industry, Economy, Home News
Diane Tucker

Any sort of cash incentive to get manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles -- and to get people to buy more of them -- is an admirable thing. But let's not forget that if people just make smarter choices, this nation's energy usage will go down dramatically.

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Spotlight on the House: Beyond Empty Promises and False Outrage on Energy

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Renewable Energy, Energy, McCain Offshore Drilling, Congress Energy Policy, Oil Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Politics News
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter

Our country's dependence on oil is a threat to our national security, a hazard to our precious environment, and a burden to millions of hardworking Americans that are struggling to fill the tank.

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The Eco-Sins (and Virtues) of Sarah Palin

Jeanie Pyun | Posted 10.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Oil Drilling, Grizzly Bear, Sarah Palin, Environment, Polar Bears, Green Living, Meat, Caribou; Salmon; Toxic; Mining; Wolves; Aerial Hunting; Vegetarian; Tanning Bed; Snowmobile, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Jeanie Pyun

We thought we'd see what eco-sins the saintly hockey-mom conservative might, however guilelessly, harbor.

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The Senate's "Drill Drill Drill" Bill Hides Nuke Power Mega-Theft

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Congress, Drilldrilldrill, Oil Drilling, Environment, Pelosi, Renewables, Mccain/Palin, Nuke Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Taxpayers are already liable for disasters by terror or error.

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The U.A.E. and the U.S.

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Co2, Environment, United Arab Emirates, Oil, Energy, US Oil, Oil Drilling, Middle East, Energy Crisis, Solar Power, Green News
Bill Chameides

Even more surprising, the United States produces more oil than the U.A.E. -- 8 million barrels a day compared to the the U.A.E.'s 3 million.

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Palin Repeats GOP's Big Energy Lie -- Plus Four Other Energy Lies, Too

Joseph Romm | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Oil Drilling, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Speech Reactions, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Joseph Romm

Sarah Palin sounds authentic while lying through her teeth, seems decent while saying indecent things. And that, of course, is why the GOP faithful love her.

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What the Democrats are Afraid Of

Christopher Ingram | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Alaska, John McCain, Chris Ingram, Democrat, Special Needs Children, Joe Biden, Mid-East Oil, Sarah Palin, Election, Barack Obama, Republican, Rudy Giuliani, Pitbull, Oil Drilling, Convention, Smaller Government, Politics News
Christopher Ingram

Sarah Palin delivered an out of the park speech last night. And John McCain can be proud of his selection and ignore the personal and political attack...

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