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Legislation encourages wind farm, but hurdles remain
After three years of trying, Gov. Martin O'Malley has won approval of legislation that aims to spur construction of towering wind turbines off Maryland's Atlantic coast. Now comes the hard part. Daunting regulatory, political and financial hurdles...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Business, Ocean City, Government, Renewable Energy
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Nik Wallenda will tightrope walk over the Grand Canyon on Discovery
Nik Wallenda, the man known as "King of the High Wire," will venture into Evel Knievel territory this summer when he makes a daring high-wire walk across the Grand Canyon. And those curious to see if he makes it will be able to watch the whole thing...
Tags: Lena Dunham, Matt Lauer, Nik Wallenda, Today (tv program), Jane Campion
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Salazar on Arctic drilling: 'Shell screwed up in 2012'
SEATTLE — Federal regulators said Thursday they would not allow Royal Dutch Shell to resume exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska until the company comes up with a detailed operations program and management plan for operating in the Arctic to...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources, Ken Salazar, Heavy Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Jessamine Civil War site named new national historic landmark
news@jessaminejournal.comSecretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis announced Monday the designation of 13 new national historic landmarks, including the Camp Nelson Historic and Archeological District. “These...Tags: Beecher, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Tourism and Leisure
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US citing security to censor more public records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored in the name of national security files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama...
Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science, National Security
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Begich and Murkowski React to Salazar Resigning
Channel 2 NewsA fifth member of the Obama administration will leave in March. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced on Wednesday that he’s resigning. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich reacted to the resignation with news releases and...Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Ottawa Senators, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Interior Policy
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Obama picks REI executive Sally Jewell to lead Interior Department
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Recreational Equipment Inc. Chief Executive Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department in his second term, a White House official said. The president will make the announcement Wednesday afternoon at the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, White House, Media Industry, Petroleum Industry, Washington, DC
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Alaska Delegation Questions NPR-A Management Plan
Alaska’s congressional delegation gave a lukewarm welcome to a management plan, signed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday, that allows access to oil and gas resources on nearly half of the 23 million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska....
Tags: Energy Resources, Elvis Presley, Radio, Interior Policy, Conservation
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The challenges at the Interior Dept.
U.S. secretaries of the Interior have seldom been renowned for being … well, renowned. Typically affable former members of Congress who reliably see things according to the president's point of view, they are nearly always Western conservationists,...
Tags: U.S. Cabinet, Energy Resources, Recreational Equipment Inc., Conservation, Lobbying
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Babbitt says public lands conservation lagging under Obama
Saying that President Obama is lagging behind even some of his Republican predecessors in protecting public lands, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is urging the administration to put more federal land off limits to energy and other resource...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources, Republican Party, Environmental Issues, Barack Obama
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Obama names REI chief to lead the Interior Department
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Wednesday nominated Sally Jewell, a former oil engineer and banker and current chief executive of a national outdoor retailer, to lead the Interior Department, making an unorthodox pick for his first woman nominee...Tags: White House, Energy Resources, Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, Conservation
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Coast Guard, Interior Plan Probes of Shell Offshore Drilling Rigs
Channel 2 NewsThe Coast Guard has ordered a marine casualty investigation of the Shell Oil-contracted drilling rig Kulluk’s Dec. 31 grounding on Sitkalidak Island, a day after it was safely towed to an anchorage about 30 miles away. The news comes as Interior...Tags: Transportation Industry, Energy Resources, Clarence Thomas, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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