Ken Salazar

  • Ivanpah Power Plant – Not Clean Not Green

    Ken Cole

    Michael J. Connor, Ph.D. California Director Western Watersheds Project Secretary of the Interior Salazar is about to initial a series of major giveaways of public lands in California to industrial-scale solar power producers. These “fast-tracked” power plant projects have had truncated environmental reviews in the current administration’s rush to place huge chunks of public land…

  • Obama: Interior reforms too slow

    Brian Ertz

    Off With His Hat Finally some sanity ~ it’ll be interesting to see whether Obama has the integrity to follow through (not holding my breath): Obama: Interior reforms too slow ~ By Dan Berman, Politico White House insiders say Salazar has fallen out of favor and speculate that he will be gone after November’s midterms. Obama didn’t…

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

    Ralph Maughan

    This must mean that Interior boss Salazar gets the ax- Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock. By Frank Rick. New York  Times. The President asked us to pray.  So I ask God that the President fire Ken Salazar. The President says he would have “fired Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive” (currently yachting in…

  • The Spill, The Scandal and the President

    Ken Cole

    The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder A revealing article in Rolling Stone points out how Obama and Salazar did nothing to reform the well known corruption at MMS. It is expected…

  • 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…

  • Why was the Deepwater Horizon given a Categorical Exclusion?

    Ken Cole

    The leak started 30 days ago, oil as thick as paint is washing up on the shores of Louisiana and there are plumes of oil deep underwater poisoning the ocean and threatening the Florida Keys and the east coast.  There have been many attempts to stop the leak and it appears that it won’t be…

  • 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…

  • Western Watersheds puts up a bison page

    Ralph Maughan

    A new resource page for the case Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. Salazar I hope this new page will prove to be another site for good information on efforts to compell the Park Service and Forest Service to stop cooperating in the bison slaughter and eventually allow a significant number of bison to live…

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