Scott Streater | March 3, 2011 | Reposted from Energy and Environment Land Letter The Obama administration’s controversial new “wild lands” policy could face its first legal challenge in northwest Wyoming’s McCullough Peaks, but not from pro-development interests and Republican lawmakers who have been most critical of the policy’s implications. Rather, environmental groups are prepared… Read more »
Josh Dorner | March 1, 2011 | Reposted from Think Progress Newly-empowered House Republicans are once again pushing for Bush-era runaway energy development on the West’s public lands under the guise of “vigorous oversight” of the Obama administration’s public lands policy. The House Natural Resources Committee will today hold a hearing into a long-overdue December decision by Interior… Read more »
David Williams | March 1, 2011 | Reposted from Colorado Independent House Republicans today began a week of what will no doubt be heated hearings aimed at blocking Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s Wild Lands order that directed the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to protect millions of acres of federal land for its wilderness… Read more »
Ben Geman | March 03, 2011 | Reposted from The Hill Interior Secretary Ken Salazar spent Thursday morning parrying GOP allegations that the Obama administration is wrongly restricting U.S. oil-and-gas development — including more claims that the administration wants to force gas prices upwards. Salazar appeared before the House Natural Resources Committee, where he repeatedly… Read more »
The House Natural Resources Committee, led by Chairman Doc Hastings, will hold a series of oversight hearings regarding public lands drilling policy in the coming days: Department of Interior FY12 budget (3/3/11) U.S. Bureau of Land Management FY12 budget (3/8/11) Rhetoric versus reality “Millions of acres of multi-use land in the West are at risk… Read more »
John Colson | March 2, 2011 | Reposted from the Glenwood Springs Post Independent A Denver-based team of scientists has concluded, for the second time, that the health and safety of the residents of Battlement Mesa probably will be threatened by oil and gas drilling within the boundaries of the community.The second draft of the… Read more »
Jeremy Fugleberg | March 1, 2011 | Reposted from the Billings Gazette PAVILLION, Wyo. — Government officials, the state rural drinking water association and a natural gas firm have banded together to seek the answer to an important question: What is contaminating the drinking water in wells around Pavillion? On Tuesday, the representatives hammered out… Read more »
Ben Geman | February 28, 2011 | Reposted from The Hill Two top House Democrats launched an investigation Monday into the potential health risks of drilling for natural gas on public lands. House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Edward Markey (Mass.) and Rep. Rush Holt (N.J.), the top Democrat on the energy subcommittee, asked the… Read more »
Those who live on the front lines of the natural gas industry’s fracking operations out west are hoping that the light shed on the natural gas industry will finally get people listening to what they have been saying for years. “I feel terrible for the people of Pennsylvania and the east coast who are going… Read more »
Ben Geman | February 24, 2011 | Reposted from The Hill Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday struck back at critics of his “Wild Lands” conservation initiative, comments that come days after the House approved GOP legislation to block funding for the program. “I think there are people who have made more of this issue than… Read more »
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