Ken Salazar is reportedly leaving his post as Secretary of Interior in March of this year. His legacy includes a failed delisting of wolves in Idaho and Montana, which was legislatively pushed through, delisting of wolves in Wyoming where wolves are treated as vermin, approval of the Deepwater Horizon using a categorical exclusion from […]
Continue Reading →Salazar’s hearing before Senate Committe-
Sounds like any generic, old school Western Democrat that has been in this “saddle” many times before-
Ken Salazar promises reform at Interior Department. LA Times. By Jim Tankersley
Barack Obama criticized — again — over pick of Ken Salazar as Interior secretary. By Pete Thomas. LA […]
Continue Reading →Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet gets the nod from Colorado Governor Ritter-
The good news is it looks like Bennet is of a greener disposition than Salazar.
From the blog Colorado pols . . . Michael Bennet, Everybody!
Continue Reading →He has cancelled events today, Tuesday and Wednesday-
He is a pretty traditional Democratic Party kind of nomination (assuming it is him). He is a Democratic US Senator from Colorado, but Democrats won’t lose the seat because the Democratic governor has the power to appoint a replacement. Salazar is Hispanic, satisfying a category that was […]
Continue Reading →We’ve seen this heedless rush to oil shale before, just ahead of the inevitable bust. By Senator Ken Salazar. Salt Lake Tribune (reprinted from the Washington Post).
Salazar is a U.S. Senator from Colorado, the state where much of the oil shale lies.
Continue Reading →Senator Salazar is upset about the BLM’s giveaway of the huge and wildlife-rich Roan Plateau in Western Colorado to the energy companies. One the surface, at least, all the Salazar is asking is a 120-day extension to review the Roan Plateau Resource Management Plan.
Story in Rocky Barker’s blog. Rocky Barker’s […]
Continue Reading →Representative Raúl M. Grijalva ‘gets it’ before it needs gettin’. Salazar is an industry apologist
Representative Raúl M. Grijalva issued a press release highlighting a recent Washington Post article describing how his foresight on offshore drilling, a foresight directly pertinent to any hope at having spared the world the worst environmental disaster in history, […]
Continue Reading →Scientists & Conservation Groups: Time for Salazar to step down
Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit featured in the New York Times
The Gulf Coast disaster is a cataclysmic failure. It’s a failure of insatiable industrial greed. But to leave it at that – to blame […]
Continue Reading →Dozens of Environmental Groups and Scientists sign letter asking Obama for Ken Salazar’s Resignation.
WildEarth Guardians initiated the drive to find signatories to the letter in which a number of conservation groups and scientists have called for the resignation of Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar. Many of the signatories had asked Obama to not appoint […]
Continue Reading →Interior Secretary Ken Salazar may leave his post to run for Colorado Governor’s post
Salazar gets White House OK for run
By Michael Riley
The Denver Post
