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Wilderness Restored? Obama Plans to Overturn Bush Environmental Policy

Some of America's most beautiful, untamed spaces are now poised to stay that way. Reversing a policy set forth when George W. Bush was president, the Obama administration says it plans to make more than 200 million of acres of land eligible for "Wild Lands" federal protection, The Associated Press reported. The vast...

New Drilling Banned in Eastern Gulf, Atlantic Coast

WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- The Obama administration announced today that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted it to scuttle plans to open waters off Florida and along the Atlantic coast to offshore oil and gas drilling for at least seven years. The change, detailed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a...

Obama Administration Lifts Gulf Drilling Ban

(Oct. 12) -- The Obama administration today announced an early end to the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling off American shores, but it has added tough safety rules for the drilling companies and a regime of government tests that could delay the start of new operations for weeks or months. The drilling ban had been put...

Gulf Drilling Moratorium May Be Lifted Early

WASHINGTON (Sept. 27) -- The Interior Department plans to issue two new oil drilling regulations later this week, signaling that a six-month deepwater drilling moratorium for the Gulf of Mexico may be lifted early, a presidential panel was told here Monday. But Michael Bromwich, director of the newly organized Bureau of...

After Gulf Blast, Drilling Ban Debate Intensifies

(Sept. 2) -- The explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has intensified the debate over the Obama administration's temporary ban on deepwater drilling in the gulf, even though the accident apparently did not involve drilling and the ban doesn't apply to the installation because it's in shallow...

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Salazar Gives Natural Gas Project A Go

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday announced the approval of a major natural gas drilling project in Utah that the Obama administration says will support more than 4,000 jobs during its development while safeguarding critical wildlife habitat and air quality.

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06/02/12 Officials break ground on Navajo water project Source: The Sierra Vista Herald - Sierra Vista AZ Federal, state and tribal officials gathered Saturday in western New Mexico to break ground on the massive Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project.
06/02/12 Solid weekend of fishing despite large crowds Source: Cape Gazette - Lewes DE Fishing was pretty good over the long weekend, considering the amount of people we had on the water.
06/01/12 Missions in lead spot for World Heritage approval Source: mySA - San Antonio TX San Antonio's historic missions are in the lead among three U.S. sites nominated for World Heritage designation, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said Friday.
06/01/12 A Paler Shade of Green Source: Counterpunch Although America's greatest Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes, who had the post for nearly a decade under FDR, was from Chicago, the playbook for presidential transitions calls for picking a Westerner for Interior, as long as the nominee isn't a Californian.
06/01/12 With the blue waters of the Delaware Bay as a... Source: Cape Gazette - Lewes DE With the blue waters of the Delaware Bay as a backdrop, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined with Delaware's congressional delegation, state and county leaders and officials representing dozens of environmental and preservation groups to launch the Delaware Bayshore Initiative, part of the national America's Great Outdoors program.

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Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazar (; born March 2, 1955) is the current United States Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of President Barack Obama.

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