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Companies report progress in oil shale trials
Colorado :: CO :: USA | 18 days ago
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Efforts to mine oil from rock are ongoing in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, speakers at a symposium said Tuesday, the same day Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Salt Lake City that he would cut the size of new oil shale leases. Representatives from...
Tags: oil shale, Ken Salazar, Colorado School of Mines, Interior Department, bush administration, Bush, interior secretary, royalty rates, secretary ken, Utah
Obama EPA releases Bush-era global warming finding
Washington :: DC :: USA | 25 days ago
Credibility The e-mail and the 28-page document attached to it, released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, show that back in December of 2007 the agency concluded that six gases linked to global warming pose dangers to public welfare, and wanted to...
Tags: bush administration, Obama EPA, George W. Bush, global warming
Interior to reoffer Utah drilling leases
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility He says 17 of 77 leases for bid should be allowed to proceed. Published: 10/9/2009 2:24 AM Last Modified: 10/9/2009 2:24 AM The Interior Department will reoffer 17 of 77 lease parcels for oil and natural gas drilling in Utah after halting their development...
Tags: Utah, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, bush administration, Bush, utah lands, gas drilling, interior secretary, secretary ken
61 WHITE HOUSE ARRESTS: 100's demand Obama to end wars, close Gitmo & Bagram, surge housing & job spending
As the U.S. led war in Afghanistan begins its ninth year this week, 61 were arrested yesterday at the White House. Demonstrators' message: war, torture and drone bombing are outrageous, unacceptable and must end immediately. National anti-war groups...
Tags: National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, the War Resisters League, Witness Against Torture, Code Pink, Peace Action, World Can't Wait, Veterans for Peace, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Frida Berrigan, Cindy Sheehan, Barack Obama, National Call for Nonviolent Resistance, October 5 Anti-War Coalition, White House, Guantanamo, torture, drone bombing, McPherson Square, Bagram, Bush Administration, Afghanistan, Iraq, Casey Sheehan, Washington DC.
J. K. Rowling Snubbed by Bush White House for Promoting Witchcraft
White House :: TN :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Rowling Snubbed by Bush White House for Promoting Witchcraft Think Progress reports: The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civil award, and is given to individuals who have contributed to: 1) the security or national interests of...
White House examines new rules for tribal casinos
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Obama administration may make it easier for Indian tribes to build casinos far from their reservations. The White House is "rethinking" a policy from the previous Bush administration that off-reservation casino sites be within commuting distance...
Tags: bush administration, obama administration, Bush, reservation casinos, casinos sites, Obama, commuting distance, build casinos
Ex-CIA Chiefs Ask Obama To Stop Interrogations Probe
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Seven former CIA directors asked President Barack Obama on Friday to quash a criminal probe of harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration. The CIA directors, who served both Democratic and Republican presidents and include...
Tags: torture, attorney general eric holder, CIA Torturers, Barack Obama, Obama Backs Holder, president obama, Bush, cia directors, bush administration, Justice Department
Don't Fence US In! The cost of the US-Mexico border wall revealed
(featuring BorderExplorer's own music video) A government report released yesterday predicts that it will cost $6.5 Billion over the next 20 years to maintain a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite the billions spent, there is...
Tags: They're Buidling a Wall, Government Accountability Office, border wall, border fence, US-Mexico border, Bennie Thompson, GAO, The Associated Press, David Rovics, Israeli-Palestinian wall, US-Mexico wall, Bush Administration, Obama Administration.
Groups Seek to End Legal Hiring Bias by Religious Charities
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility It asks the Justice Department to withdraw a legal finding that they say stands as "one of the most notable examples of the Bush administration's attempt to impose a constitutionally questionable and unwise policy." The intersection of church and state...
Tags: bush administration, Bush
Obama advisor Van Jones steps down
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Van Jones , the onetime Marxist whose controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11 have made him a distracting lightning rod as Barack Obama's environmental jobs czar in recent days, resigned tonight. Now, the Sunday morning political talk shows...
Tags: Van Jones Van Jones, Barack Obama, green jobs, jones resigns, Obama Political Achilles Heel, Bush, jobs czar, bush administration, president barack, house environmental
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