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  • Greens call for Salazar's resignation

    Ken Cole

    Dozens of Environmental Groups and Scientists sign letter asking Obama for Ken Salazar’s Resignation. WildEarth Guardians initiated the drive to find signatories to the letter in which a number of conservation groups and scientists have called for the resignation of Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar. Many of the signatories had asked Obama to not appoint…

  • Interior Science Has Integrity Issues, Inspector General Says

    Ken Cole

    Politics still reigns supreme in the Interior Department A new report outlines how very little has changed under Obama and Salazar. Science is being ignored and managers manipulate it to support predetermined political outcomes. In my experience, I would say that the Interior Department under Obama and Salazar is as bad or worse than under…

  • 'Colorado cabal' takes Interior's reins

    Ralph Maughan

    Dept. of Interior is usually quite unrepresentative of the country, but this is extraordinary- ‘Colorado cabal’ takes Interior’s reins. By NOELLE STRAUB. New York Times. Still, I’d say its better than the industry-minded bunch Dirk Kempthorne brought in Idaho.

  • Secretary Salazar will review numerous Kempthorne decisions at Interior

    Ralph Maughan

    He can undo some with a stroke of a pen. Others could stand or be modified. Some will take years of rule-making- “Salazar to revisit recent Interior Department actions. The department’s new chief will review many of the energy and environmental decisions made in the waning days of the Bush administration.”  By Jim Tankersley. LA…

  • PEER: Interior Department needs new brooms to sweep it clean

    Brian Ertz

    Whistleblowers and Reformers Required to Rejuvenate Ravaged Agencies In response to President-elect Obama’s decision to name rancher Ken Salazar Secretary of the Interior, a selection widely celebrated by extractive industry groups and current Bush Interior head Dirk Kempthorne, grass-roots wildlife, public land, and animal rights activists continue to scratch their heads with dismay.  It’s a…

  • Post Interior Interview with Grijalva

    Brian Ertz

    Too much fight ~ not enough industry.  Three cheers for Grijalva. Grijalva sizes up why he didn’t get Interior Congressman, still upbeat, says, ‘I have a good job’

  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog

    Brian Ertz

  • Interior Update ~ Salazar: Cows AND Condos and oil & guns in parks & big ag …

    Brian Ertz

    The recent rumors that rancher Ken Salazar is a shoe-in at Interior have flipped on its head many of Obama’s most fervent western supporters’ idea of what the President-elect’s campaign promise for big-‘C’ “Change” might mean.  That campaign slogan’s broad-sweeping allegation had many hopeful that a new outlook, an outlook responsive to Obama’s supporters on…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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