A group of industrial natural gas consumers fired off a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday expressing their concern that the agency may restrict or possibly prevent the use of “categorical exclusions” to fast-track oil and gas activity on public lands.
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Articles from Salazar
Salazar Called on to Protect BLM Lands in Utah from Development
A coalition of 89 House Democrats led by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday urging him to take administrative action to protect energy-rich Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Utah from development while Congress continues to work on legislation to designate them as wilderness.
November 12, 2009
New MMS Director Hails from Capitol Hill
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday appointed Liz Birnbaum, an attorney with experience in energy and environmental policy, as director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS).
June 29, 2009
New MMS Director Hails from Capitol Hill
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday appointed Liz Birnbaum, an attorney with experience in energy and environmental policy, as director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS).
June 26, 2009
Palin Says OCS Delay Could Impact TAPS Pipeline, Gasline
State and federal lawmakers from Alaska urged Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday not to focus on the development of renewable fuels to the exclusion of oil and natural gas production in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and said that the development of offshore oil and gas could be accomplished without harming land or threatening endangered species.
April 15, 2009
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