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Salazar blasted for Cape Cod wind farm even as crews set fire to oil slick

By | 04.28.10 | 1:55 pm

Republicans like Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown apparently prefer the drill-baby-drill consequences of offshore drilling, where 42,000 gallons of oil a day are currently oozing toward Gulf Coast beaches, to the alleged blight of offshore wind farms.

Brown needs cheap fuel…

Gas-patch politicians ask Salazar to ease up on industry even as Colorado levies record fines

By | 04.26.10 | 3:59 pm

Monday, just a couple of days after running a story in which more than 90 county commissioners and other elected officials from around the West urged Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to ease up on the oil and gas industry,…

Salazar deflects questions about possible run to replace Ritter

By | 01.06.10 | 11:21 am

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Wednesday morning declined to say whether he would run for the governor’s office in the wake of Bill Ritter stunning announcement that he won’t seek a second term.

Oil shale backers blast Salazar, but Ritter supports lease limitations

By | 10.21.09 | 12:55 pm

Even as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was announcing new environmental reforms for the next round of oil shale research and development leases on public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming on Tuesday, proponents of the unproven fuel source were…

Salazar wants to rein in wild-horse costs by setting up preserves

By | 10.08.09 | 3:30 pm

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wants the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to get into the wild-horse preserve business at a cost of nearly $100 million, according to media reports, but, believe it or not, that represents a cost savings…

Judge gives feds more time to settle lawsuits over 11th-hour oil shale rules

By | 09.29.09 | 9:37 am

A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environmental groups over midnight rule making by the Bush administration for oil shale leasing on the Western…