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The Obama Moratorium - No Offshore Drilling For Next 3 Years

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Jeff Schreiber with America’s Right blogged about Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision to put a stop to all new energy development off America’s coast until at least 2012. Here's a passage from Jeff’s post: “As the rest of the nation buzzed about matters of health care reform and political gamesmanship, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar quietly explained to reporters last week…

Gallup Poll: Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop

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A new Gallup survey released today shows that Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical about global warming.  48% of Americans now say the seriousness of global warming is "generally exaggerated."  That result is the highest ever recorded by Gallup; a seven point rise in last the last year and a 17-point jump since they began asking the question in 1998.   Similarly, two-thirds of…

850,000 Acres & 34 Wilderness Area Designations = No Access, No Jobs, No Recreation for Coloradans

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Click to enlarge Map Key: -- “Off Limits” signs = Land Designated Wilderness Area Under H.R. 4289 (Rep. DeGette) -- Numbers 1-7 and corresponding colors distinguish CO Congressional Districts -- CO Congressional District 1, Rep. Dianna DeGette–NOT affected by…

Wall Street Journal Editorial: An Energy Head Fake

| Posted in In Case You Missed It

An Energy Head Fake The Administration is still hostile to oil drilling and nuclear power. Wall Street Journal Editorial March 11, 2010 President Obama used his January State of the Union speech to promise "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" and "new offshore areas for oil and gas development." Judging by its recent decisions, we'd say his Cabinet hasn't…

Demand the Department of Interior Open the OCS

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Dear Colleague, I am asking you to join me in sending the attached letter to Secretary Salazar demanding that he roll back the “Obama Moratorium” on OCS development. On March 5, Secretary Salazar said that the Department will not be issuing an OCS lease plan until 2012 rather in July of this year. This means that the Draft Proposed Plan, initiated in 2008 and proposed as a draft in…

Ranking Member Hastings’ Opening Statement at Committee Hearing on Proposed Cobell Settlement

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following opening statement at today’s full committee hearing on “The Proposed Settlement of the Cobell v. Salazar Litigation”: “I want to thank Chairman Rahall for scheduling this hearing on the Cobell v. Salazar Settlement Agreement. It was on December 7th of last year that this Settlement was…