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Salazar departure leaves green posts vacant
2013-01-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: With Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's announcement Wednesday that he intends to resign, the Obama administration finds itself in exactly the same place it was four years ago: looking to fill the three most important environmental posts in the federal government. The Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration all have openings at the top, while the administration has a limited amount of time to press a second-term environmental...
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Salazar has long list of unfinished business
2013-01-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: With months of speculation ended over whether Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will stay for President Obama's second term, the former Colorado senator must now decide which of many policy initiatives he wants to finish before he leaves in March. There is no shortage of high-profile decisions Salazar could make in the coming months, ranging from a final rule governing hydraulic fracturing to the designation of national monuments on scenic lands throughout the West. The Colorado native yesterday...
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US Interior Chief Salazar to Step Down; Obama Remakes Energy Team
2013-01-17 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who helped lead the government's response to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, said on Wednesday he will leave his post by the end of March to return to his Colorado ranch. The former U.S. senator came to office pledging to clean up the "mess" at the Interior Department, but it was the massive 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that ultimately spurred the dramatic overhaul of the nation's offshore drilling regulator. Salazar's departure...
Ken Salazar leaves contested legacy as Obama's interior secretary
2013-01-16 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama's top adviser on oil drilling and the management of America's last wide open spaces announced on Wednesday that he would leave the cabinet by March. The departure of Ken Salazar as interior secretary leaves Obama with virtually a clean slate to remake his energy and environmental team. The only other original member of Obama's original green "dream team", the Nobel prize-winning energy secretary Steven Chu, is also expected to step down at the start of Obama's second term. As interior...
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Interior chief Salazar stepping down in March
2013-01-16 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill and promoted alternative energy sources throughout the nation, will step down in March. A former U.S. senator from Colorado, Salazar ran the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama's first term and pushed renewable power such as solar and wind and the settlement of a longstanding dispute with American Indians. With Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson also leaving...
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