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Interior’s Salazar accuses O&G industry of engaging in ‘election-year politics’

By | 11.25.09 | 10:25 am

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar fired back at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, telling reporters on a conference call that recent attacks on the Obama administration’s policies have “all the flavor and deception of election-year politics,” according to the

Judge rejects global-warming defense in Utah BLM auction-fraud case

By | 11.17.09 | 9:38 am

Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student who last December allegedly won 13 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases for $1.7 million he never intended to pay, came up with a unique defense in U.S. District in Salt…

Salazar bans drilling near Canyonlands, Arches national parks in Utah

By | 10.09.09 | 11:04 am

A last-minute Bush administration bid to allow oil and gas drilling on nearly 8,000 acres of public land near Arches and Canyonlands national parks in southeastern Utah was permanently blocked by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday, much to the relief…