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WASHINGTON, April 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversees energy development on the nation's public lands and oceans, will speak to a National Press Club luncheon on Tuesday, April 24. Salazar is expected to discuss gas prices, offshore drilling, domestic energy development and other energy-related issues. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) With gasoline prices approaching $4 a gallon in much of...
NEW ORLEANS, March 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Jim Adams, president and CEO of the Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA), said that BOEMER's late day announcement that it has issued an additional permit for deepwater drilling is misleading. "There were 32 deepwater drilling operations already permitted when the President imposed his moratorium last year. Interior Secretary Salazar is merely allowing existing permit holders to resume their operations," said Adams. "This administration has...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Solutions filed today a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the Department of the Interior (DOI), requesting documents pertaining to the tabulated results of the recent public comment period for DOI's five-year energy plan for offshore oil and gas drilling. American Solutions sources have indicated that MMS staff has confirmed that the comments have been tabulated internally and those...
BOWIE, Md., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 49th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, joins the Plan B Government Systems, Inc. (PBGSI) Advisory Board as Chairman to advise and assist the Bowie-based IT integrator. "I am excited to be working with a team like PBGSI," Kempthorne said. "They are a leading edge, creative and customer-oriented company highly regarded within the IT industry and I am proud to be associated with them." Kempthorne will provide strategic advise to the...
Former Arizona governor, chairman of World Wildlife Fund brings expertise and experience in land policy, planning, natural resources, and infrastructure CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bruce Babbitt, former governor of Arizona and interior secretary in the Clinton administration, has joined the board of directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. "This is a convergence and a coming home," said Babbitt, who is stepping down in October as chairman of the World...
PHILADELPHIA, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) announced today that Dirk A. Kempthorne has been elected to the company's Board of Directors, effective April 28, 2009. Appointed the 49th United States Secretary of the Interior in June 2006, Secretary Kempthorne, age 57, served in that capacity until January 2009. He served as the Governor of Idaho from 1999 until his appointment as Secretary of the Interior and was also a United States Senator representing the...
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) today applauded the nomination of U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) as the next Secretary of the Department of Interior. Senator Salazar has been a strong advocate for many years for the millions of Americans who recreate on public lands. As a member of the Senate, he has pushed for federal policies that preserve and promote recreation on National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management lands and has...
By Richard Halstead, The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif. Jun. 27--Addressing a group of ambassadors from around the world at Fort Baker Thursday, Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne touted the Bush administration's plan for funding national parks. Then later, during a brief interview with the Independent Journal, the former Idaho governor reaffirmed his support for lifting the 27-year-old ban on U.S. offshore oil drilling. While Kempthorne spoke, emissaries from 41 countries...
By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jun. 22--As U.S. Interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt threatened a federal takeover of the San Pedro's management back in 1999 to keep development and pumping from drying the river up. Now, as a private citizen and development consultant, Babbitt is pushing for a subdivision northwest of Sierra Vista that several local scientists say could ultimately harm the San Pedro, the Southwest's last major, free-flowing desert river. Babbitt is working as...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush chose Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne on Thursday to replace Gale Norton as Interior secretary, saying his nominee had a "long and abiding love for nature." If confirmed by the Senate, Kempthorne would become the 49th Interior secretary, whose job is to oversee federal lands. "As secretary of the Interior, Dirk will continue my administration's efforts to conserve our land, water and air resources, reduce the maintenance backlog of our...
