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PICTURES: 12 Landmark Environmental Policies Passed Since 1970 – The National Journal 04/18/11

2011-04-18

Amy Harder | April 18, 2011 | Reposted from The National Journal The Federal Land Policy and Management Act This 1976 law governs the way the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management administers public lands. To date, the bureau has protected just 1 percent of Western public land as wilderness and has leased 42 percent of… Read more »

2011-03-11

Mead Gruver | March 8, 2011 | Reposted from Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming, famous for its crisp mountain air and breathtaking, far-as-the-eye-can-see vistas, is looking a lot like smoggy Los Angeles these days because of a boom in natural gas drilling. Folks who live near the gas fields in the western part of… Read more »

2011-03-10

Thomas Burr | March 9, 2011 | Reposted from the Salt Lake Tribune Rep. Rob Bishop is known for his comedic relief and he didn’t disappoint this week when he warned the head of the Bureau of Land Management that their actions could have unintended consequences. Bishop, who typically flies between Utah and Washington on… Read more »

2011-03-10

Andrew Maykuth | March 10, 2011 | Reposted from the Philadelphia Inquirer The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s statistics on Marcellus Shale natural-gas activity contain serious flaws and inconsistencies, and do not accurately report the volume of wastewater being reused in the industry’s much-touted recycling efforts. The DEP’s most recent statewide statistics on wastewater production… Read more »

2011-03-8

Susan Crabtree | March 11, 2011 | Reposted from Talking Points Memo UPDATE: Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the Natural Resources Committee issued a release saying Kim is the first hire for the newly created Office of Oversight and Investigations, which will scrutinize the activities of the Department of Interior and “other agencies under the committee’s… Read more »

2011-03-4

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 »

2011-03-4

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 »

2011-03-4

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 »

2011-03-3

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 »

2011-03-3

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 »

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