News on Ken Salazar

Climate change pushing bird species 'towards extinction:' US

2010-03-11T17:17:01Z

<div><p>Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.</p><p>"For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses," Salazar said. "Now they are facing a new threat -- climate change -- that could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply and push many species towa...

Interior: Climate change threatens migratory birds

2010-03-11T16:01:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Climate change threatens US migratory bird populations, Interior Department report says</div><div><p>Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday.</...

US stops short of protection for western sage grouse

2010-03-05T13:18:00Z

<div><p>US officials Friday stopped short of giving endangered species status to the sage grouse, an iconic bird that is at the center of a dispute over oil drilling in the western United States.</p><p>The Interior Department said the bird merits protection but will not receive it for now because of a backlog of other spec...

Mass. wind farm project sent to preservation panel

2010-03-01T15:00:41Z

<div id="subtitle">Interior secretary sends Mass. wind farm project to historical preservation panel for review</div><div><p>The secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday asked a key historical preservation panel to weigh in on a proposed Cape Cod project that would be the nation's first offshore wind farm.</p>...

Utah wary over national monument candidate list

2010-02-23T16:30:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Utah fears repeat of land grab by feds, wary of list of national monument candidates in West</div><div><p>The possibility that the federal government could designate millions of acres in the West as national monuments and off-limits to development is stoking fears and generating resentment in some energy-rich states.</p><p>An internal U.S. Department of...

In western Wyoming, gas industry faces crossroads

2010-02-22T10:00:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Western Wyoming's once-booming gas industry approaches economic and regulatory crossroads</div><div><p>Drilling rigs on the horizon underscore that cattle ranching and tourism no longer drive the economy in this picturesque town at the foot of the Wind River Range.</p><p>But the future of the natural gas industry in the Pinedale, Wyo., area — scene of a decade of intense drilling into two of the ...

Fish and Wildlife chief dies after skiing

2010-02-20T20:15:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Fish and Wildlife director Sam Hamilton dies after suffering chest pains on ski slopes</div><div><p>The director of the Fish and Wildlife Service died Saturday after suffering chest pains while skiing in Colorado. Sam Hamilton was 54.</p><p>The 30-y...

Obama

2010-02-09T07:30:57Z

President Barack Obama signs a memorandum on childhood obesity, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House,Washington. Standing, from left are, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health an...

Feds take deliberate approach of oil shale leasing

2010-02-22T11:08:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Official says federal government is taking deliberate approach of oil shale leasing</div><div><p>Concerns and conflict over the first round of federal oil shale leases in the Rockies have made the government more deliberate in the second round, a federal official said Friday.</p><p>Alan Gilbert, a senior adviser to U.S. Department of the Interior, who is weighing the fate of a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, said Tuesday that killing the pioneering projec...

Wind Farm Decision

2010-02-02T15:46:23Z

Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, 2nd from left, puts an arm around Minerals Management Service (MMS) Director, Liz Birdbaum, far left, during a news conference aboard the Coastguard's Ida Lewis buoy tender while on an information gathering tour of...

Salazar says he's 'bullish' on wind energy

2010-02-22T12:39:03Z

<div id="subtitle">Interior Secretary says he's 'bullish' on wind energy on visit to proposed Mass. project site</div><div><p>Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says the future of wind energy in the U.S. does not hang on his decision about a Massachusetts project.&lt...

Obama budget seeks to end oil, gas subsidies

2010-02-22T13:00:18Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday asked Congress for a second time to end some $36.5 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies, saying it would help fight global warming.</p><p>In its proposed budget for the government's 2011 spending year that starts October 1, the administration sai...

Virginia senators slam delay in offshore drilling

2010-02-22T14:00:43Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia's two U.S. senators on Wednesday urged the Obama administration to carry out a previous plan to lease almost 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) in federal waters off the state's coastline to oil and n...

Interior to look at drilling in Atlantic Ocean

2010-02-22T15:05:54Z

<div id="subtitle">Salazar says Interior will do seismic studies of drilling in Atlantic Ocean</div><div><p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he is nearly ready to begin an environmental analysis that could lead to drilling in areas up to 200 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>Salazar told ...

Feds move to keep big snakes off planes, out of US

2010-02-22T17:24:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Feds move to keep snakes off planes, out of US by banning import of Burmese pythons, anacondas</div><div><p>Federal officials want to keep nine kinds of constrictor snakes out of the United States, saying they belong to invasive species that pose the single biggest threat to the nation's environment.</p><p>"This is the story of the invas...

Snakes Off Planes

2010-01-20T16:16:54Z

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks speaks to the media after a press conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Salazar announced a proposed ban on bringing Burmese pythons and eight other kinds of large snakes in the country, saying...

Salazar to decide on planned Cape Cod wind farm

2010-02-22T20:53:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Salazar says he plans to decide on controversial Cape Cod wind farm proposal by end of April</div><div><p>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday he will decide by the end of April whether to approve a proposed wind farm off Cape Cod that has sparked a bitter, nine-year public fight.</p><p&g...

U.S. Interior Secretary Salazar says will stay put

2010-02-22T23:56:07Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ken Salazar, President Barack Obama's top official dealing with energy production on federal lands, said on Thursday he will keep his post and not run for Colorado governor.</p><p>Interior ...

NM governor, sportsmen praise tough drilling rules

2010-02-23T00:06:10Z

<div id="subtitle">NM supporters say new rules on oil, gas leasing will bring balance to energy development</div><div><p>New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and sportsmen from across the state say they are encouraged that the federal government will be making changes to how oil and natural gas leases are awarded on public lands.</p><p&am...