Topic: Ken Salazar

Ken Salazar

/u-s-senate" title="U.S. Senate">Senator Ken Salazar, a Democratic from Colorado , was named the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior by President-elect Barack Obama at a press conference on December 17, 2008. Obama Names Salazar As Secretary of Interior (December 17, ...
Interior secretary swears in leader of new agency to oversee offshore drillingInterior Secretary Ken Salazar has sworn in a former federal prosecutor as director of a new government agency to oversee offshore drilling and other oil and gas development.A former assistant U.S. ...
The United States is moving away from the " drill anywhere, whatever the cost" energy policy of the previous administration, officials said Wednesday as they announced reforms in the way oil and gas leases are attributed. "We don't believe we have to ...
Interior Secretary Salazar ends 1st year, vows more reforms, initiativesInterior Secretary Ken Salazar started on the job a year ago pledging to clean up an agency hit by scandals and assailed by critics as under the sway of the oil and gas ...
Interior secretary calls for probe of Bush administration's changes on oil-shale developmentThe Department of the Interior is rewriting the rules for oil-shale leasing as the secretary called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of President George Bush ...
Oil and gas drilling OK'd on some disputed Utah lands Bush administration had pushed to leaseInterior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near national parks that were hurriedly ...
Bush drilling program left huge backlog of contested oil and gas leases in Rocky MountainsBrian Wixom's company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only ...

Cash for Clunkers: An Inside History

If Jack Hidary had made any sudden moves during a train trip to Washington this past winter, " Hidary, a serial entrepreneur and one of the co-authors of an article that lead ultimately to the $3 billion program, was taking a train ...
Congress should reform the nation's antiquated mining law, Obama administration official urgesThe Obama administration will make overhauling the nation's 137-year-old hardrock mining law a top priority despite a full plate of higher profile issues, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday.Salazar told a ...
Senate confirms No. 2 official for Interior Department after dispute over drilling, miningRepublicans relented and allowed the Senate to confirm President Barack Obama's pick for the No. 2 job at the Interior Department on Wednesday.David Hayes, an environmental lawyer, was confirmed by ...
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