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Interior Secretary Salazar to depart

January 16, 2013 | By TONY FRANCOIS

In December, a large coalition of environmental and other groups wrote to President Obama and urged him to replace Interior Secretary Salazar with Congressman Raul Gijalva (D – Arizona).  At the time, Salazar had not indicated a desire to depart the administration.  Since then, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has announced her departure, an ...

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Broken promises

December 30, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Reed Hopper Utah officials are not very happy with the Secretary of Interior's latest land grab.  Nor should they be.  As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune, Secretary Salazar is recanting on a hard fought settlement agreement and unilaterally making new law.   Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar annou ...

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Salazar wakes up to reality

March 17, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation will increase the water allocation for those who receive Central Valley Project water south of the Sacramento Delta, from 5% of contractual allotment to 25%.  That's definitely good news for farmers, farm workers, and all the peop ...

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Salazar underwhelms Fresno; federal and state officials must act to convene God Squad

June 29, 2009 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

There is plenty of coverage of Sunday's visit by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to Fresno. Aquafornia has a nice roundup of the news stories — the problem with these stories, however, is that they fail to portray how truly uninspiring Salazar's visit was. While the Secretary's visit was a nice gesture to those who have … ...