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Obama Interior May Reverse Bush's 'Midnight' Regs

January 23, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, midnightregulations, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, streambufferrule

Here's some good news... Today, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his agency will revisit the Bush administration's last-minute industry-friendly rule changes, including those paving the way for oil shale development in the Rockies and easing federal mining restrictions that served as the...continued

Robert Redford Helping to Rescue Redrock Wilderness

December 18, 2008

Posted by Rob Perks in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
energydevelopment, midnightregulations, oildrilling,, redrock, robertredford, utah, wilderness, wildlands

I had the great pleasure of meeting Robert Redford a few years ago when he came to D.C. to headline a press event I organized on Capitol Hill, urging Congress not to pass legislation that would open the Arctic National Wildlife...continued

White House War on Lightbulbs?

December 1, 2008

Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably

Tags:
bushrollbacks, energyefficiency, midnightregulations

From the administration that views conservation not as a necessity but a virtue, this little nugget buried in yesterday's WashPost story about Bush's raft of 'midnight regulations' rolling back environmental protections stood out: "On Nov. 19, the OMB ordered the Energy Department to...continued

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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