http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.19/interior-scandal-rated-g-reen Recent scandals at the Interior Department – this time involving environmentalists – pale in magnitude (and luridness) compared to the agency's dalliances with industry. No publisher Jonathan Thompson political scandals Ken Salazar Gale Norton Minerals Management Service Interior Department National Landscape Conservation System 2010-02-05T09:39:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/as-interior-turns During the last eight years, Bush’s Interior Department has been embroiled in enough corruption, sex and scandal to fuel several soap operas. No publisher Jonathan Thompson Minerals Management Service Julie MacDonald Political corruption Gale Norton Bush Interior Department J. Steven Griles Jack Abramoff Political scandals 2010-02-05T08:50:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.23/dodged-bullets On several environmental issues, the Bush administration failed to push through its agenda. No publisher Jodi Peterson Grazing reform Paul Hoffman Gale Norton National monuments Oil and gas leasing National Park Service Selling off federal lands Richard Pombo Endangered Species Act revision Bush environmental policy 2010-02-05T08:57:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/319/16220 The writer tells of an unexpected encounter with Interior Secretary Gale Norton, and the conversation that ensued No publisher Terry Tempest Williams Energy Oil and Gas Appointed Officials Gale Norton Interior Department Terry Tempest Williams political disagreements politics environmental policy energy policy oil and gas drilling wilderness Mike Leavitt Four C’s George W. Bush 2010-02-05T09:33:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16111 The seven states of the Colorado River Basin have come to a groundbreaking agreement that, among other things, will allow cities such as Las Vegas to lease water from out-of-state farms during times of drought No publisher Matt Jenkins Colorado River Compact water supply Las Vegas Nevada Colorado River Basin Patricia Mulroy drought Southern Nevada Water Authority Gale Norton Lake Mead Lake Powell water leasing farm water groundwater Virgin River Muddy River Imperial Vall 2010-02-05T08:56:56Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16009 A federal judge has ordered the government to buy back offshore oil and gas leases that energy companies say can’t be developed, leading some to wonder if the BLM will have to do the same with leases in potential wilderness areas No publisher Matt Jenkins Public Lands BLM Oil and Gas Eric Bruggink offshore drilling oil and gas leases energy industry Peter Douglas California Coastal Commission Peter Aengst The Wilderness Society Tom Sansonetti Gale Norton Mike Leavitt Earthjustice public lands wilderness areas Dee Be 2010-02-05T08:56:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15906 Assistant Interior Secretary Rebecca Watson resigns; Texas oil baron Oscar Wyatt indicted in Iraq oil-for-food scandal; Congress won’t fund "bunker buster" nukes; Fish and Wildlife OK with lynx mortality at proposed Wolf Creek ski village No publisher Matt Jenkins Bureau of Land Management Interior Department Rebecca Watson oil and gas industry drilling permits Gale Norton George W. Bush Bush environmental policy Oscar Wyatt oil-for-food program Saddam Hussein political scandals indictments Book Cliffs 2010-02-05T08:31:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15658 Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily grown No publisher Matt Weiser Congress Richard Pombo House of Representatives House Resources Committee political scandals Tom DeLay Jack Abramoff Mariana Islands sweatshops Rich PAC House Franking Committee Public Citizen Brian Kennedy Gale Norton nepotism L.A. Times 2010-02-05T09:25:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15361 Rampant growth in the Phoenix area and a severe drought on the Colorado River challenge Arizona's water sustainability. No publisher Matt Jenkins Land Use And Planning Dams And Water Supply Projects Central Arizona Project Phoenix Tucson growth development population drought Colorado River water use groundwater canals irrigation dams water supply projects David S. Wilson Bureau of Reclamation Gale Norton Upper Basin states Lower Bas 2010-02-05T09:23:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15224 A change in the federal Endangered Species Act will give Idaho and Montana more control over threatened gray wolves, but deny the Nez Perce Tribe a role in wolf management. No publisher Rachel Odell Threatened And Endangered Species Wolves Endangered Species Act 10j Rule Gale Norton Interior Department U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dirk Kempthorne wolf management David Gaillard Predator Conservation Alliance Nez Perce Tribe Suzanne Stone Defenders of Wildlife Ed Bang 2010-02-05T09:22:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/286/15105 Judge Clarence Brimmer strikes down Clinton's ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but another lawsuit may still bring limits on traffic No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Tourism and Recreation Snowmobile ban Yellowstone Grand Teton Clarence Brimmer Emmet Sullivan national parks snowcoaches Gale Norton Dave Freudenthal Earthjustice Abigail Dillen Stephen Saunders Clinton environmental policy Bush administration 2010-02-05T09:21:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15094 Environmental issues were almost invisible in the presidential debates, but an awful lot has happened in the last four years – and most of it has not been good for the West. No publisher Greg Hanscom Elections George W. Bush John Kerry James Watt Newt Gingrich Bill Clinton Gale Norton hunting wildlife energy industry oil and gas drilling snowmobiles in Yellowstone Interior Department wilderness Healthy Forests Initiative Clear Skies Tweeti Bl 2010-02-05T09:21:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15073 The Bush administration halts three gas wells on Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, and tosses a few more election-year bones to environmentalists and hunters No publisher Laura Paskus Politics Elections Oil and Gas Rocky Mountain Front Montana oil and gas development Bush environmental policy Gale Norton Interior Department Gloria Flora Lewis and Clark National Forest Forest Service BLM Public Lands Advocacy Claire Moseley Theodore Roosevelt Conservation 2010-02-05T09:21:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/280/14946 Forest Service fire liaison busted for tossing cigarette butts; Interior decorator Gale Norton; horse slasher; cell phones vs. snakes; neighborhood with the slurry on top; tough on crime at Yellowstone; and Bonner County, Idaho, is quiet No publisher Betsy Marston Humor Western odd news Paige Rocket Willow Fire criminal littering Gale Norton Jessica Simpson Dawn Barkman cell phones rattlesnakes Izzy Effler Morgan Beadwell Rusty Juhnke slurry firefighting St. George Utah Hope Clarke Yellowstone 2010-02-05T09:20:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/275/14781 The complete HCN interview with Interior Secretary Gale Norton No publisher Alex Pasquariello Politics Appointed Officials Gale Norton Interior Department Secretary of Interior 2010-02-05T09:57:33Z News Article