interior
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Critical List: Interior to expedite oil and gas permit review; pandas trying to mate
A round-up of the news of the day.
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Obama budget raises oil drilling royalties 50 percent
Public lands belong to all of us, so when the federal government decides to lease them out to oil and gas drillers, those companies have to pay for depriving taxpayers of environmental and recreational benefits. And the Obama administration has decided that they’re not paying enough. So the Interior Department’s budget includes a proposal to raise […]
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Why are Obama and Salazar pushing a huge expansion of coal production?
This weekend’s question may have no good answer. On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans to auction off 758 million tons of coal in Wyoming over the next few months. Then on Friday, the Bureau of Land Management explained they will be selling off another 1.6 billion tons of coal at a future date. […]