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Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake

December 17, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

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biogems, BLM, cabinetappointment, endangeredspecies, greenteam, greentransition, interiordeparment, nationalparks, oildrilling, oilleases, oilshale, publiclands, roanplateau, salazar, wildlands, wildlife

I welcome the news that President-elect Obama has appointed Senator Ken Salazar at the Secretary of the Interior. After years of corruption and corporate dominance at the Interior Department, we desperately need to change the way America's national parks, public...continued

The Environmental Appointments: Obama Means What He Says

December 11, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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browner, cabinetappointment, chu, energyefficiency, globalwarming, globalwarmingsolutions, greentransition, jackson, obama, ports, richardson, sutley

President-elect Obama's choices for top environment posts reveal something very important: they tell us that Obama means what he says. He means it when he says he wants to protect the planet and tackle global warming. Plenty of politicians say...continued