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Calls for Salazar’s head coming from both left and right

By | 06.15.10 | 9:40 am

You know you’re having a bad month or two at the office when the calls for your head are coming from both the left and the right. Interior Secretary and former Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar increasingly finds himself in that…

Former federal, state officials ask Salazar to step up energy reforms

By | 05.17.10 | 9:56 am

A group of 60 former state and federal regulators who previously oversaw energy extraction on public lands fired off a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar late last week asking him to make good on his earlier reform…

Oil shale producers risk Biblical wrath with Holy Land extraction plan

By | 01.21.10 | 2:05 pm

A key national park beloved by hikers, bikers and outdoor enthusiasts is threatened by an experimental oil shale extraction plan. Area residents rally to save their park, citing a lack of water, the unproven nature of oil shale production, a…

Salazar reportedly declines run for governor’s office, endorses Hickenlooper

By | 01.07.10 | 11:48 am

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a prepared statement Thursday that he won’t seek the Colorado governor’s office being vacated by Gov. Bill Ritter at the end of the year, instead opting to stay in the Obama cabinet and endorsing…

Farmers say thanks to Salazar for pumping the brakes on oil shale leasing

By | 11.30.09 | 10:08 am

Farmers in the Rocky Mountain states of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico unveiled an interesting ad buy over the weekend, praising Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his more measured approach to oil shale research and production than the previous administration.…

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