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By Michael Ames - Politics DailyIn the West, fighting the federal Bureau of Land Management is a time-honored tradition. But as today's agency focuses on renewable solar energy projects, the BLM is looking more friend than foe to recession-stricken southern Nevada. Ever since the Energy Policy Act of 2005 set the tangible goal of 10,000 megawatts of non-hydropower renewable energy by 2015, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior and the BLM have been working in tandem to facilitate large, utility-scale solar projects in the desert Southwest. The BLM, whose land conservation policies made it a constant ...
Justice Officials Gird for Legal Battles Over Immigration, Health, Drilling
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyA huge week looms for the Justice Department, but then again it's already been a remarkably busy and contentious summer for Attorney General Eric Holder and his legions of government lawyers. From Michigan to Arizona to Florida to California and nearly everywhere else in between, Justice officials have been forced in intemperate political conditions -- heat and humidity, and loads of hot air -- to try to put out brush fires that scorch all along the partisan legal divide, from immigration to health care to terror trials. In the next day or so, for example, the feds will learn whether U.S. ...
2 Ways Obama's New Drilling Moratorium Is Different Than the Old One
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 12) -- Today, as BP continued work on a second oil spill cap to try to plug the Deepwater Horizon well, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Obama administration is issuing a new, improved moratorium on offshore drilling that will extend until Nov. 30. The move comes one week after a New Orleans federal appeals judge rejected the administration's attempt to impose a wholesale six-month halt to deep-sea drilling off U.S. shores pending a thorough review of safety standards, the Times-Picayune reported. That temporary ban would have shut down production on 33 deepwater oil ...
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