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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Skips State of the Union Speech as 'Designated Survivor'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDid you miss the guy in the cowboy hat? Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was chosen by the White House as the missing man Tuesday night -- the Cabinet officer not attending the State of the Union speech to assure continuity of government in the event of a catastrophe. Because the president, vice president, speaker of the House and other Cabinet members all gather in the Capitol for the speech each year, administrations since the 1960s have tapped one Cabinet official to stay away as a "designated survivor" in a worst case scenario. Salazar, a former senator and native of Colorado, was ...
Everglades Boosters: Environmental Restoration Can Spur Economy, Bipartisanship
By Amy Green - Politics DailyWESTON, Fla. -- During the worst recession in a generation, we can't afford to engage in environmental restoration. Or can we? Tying environmental restoration to economic recovery is the emerging strategy for environmentalists as political turnover transforms government away from Democratic control, big spending and earmarks. That was the theme recently at the annual conference of the Everglades Coalition, an alliance of 53 national and local organizations involved in the largest environmental restoration effort in the history of the planet. The conference draws policy-makers from all ...
Year in Review: Legal Stories We Should Have Heard More About in 2010
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIn this three-part series, Politics Daily's legal analyst Andrew Cohen takes a look at the year in the law. Part 1 focuses on the 2010's most under-reported legal stories. Part 2 will focus on the year's most over-reported legal stories. And Part 3 will wrap up the year-ender package with a look at major legal events and issues. The Five Most Under-Reported Legal Stories of the Year No. 1: United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's emergence as a conservative firebrand. The year started off with a bang for the 2006 appointee of President George W. Bush when he visibly scoffed at ...
EPA Announces New Greenhouse Gas Regulations
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCalling it a "common-sense approach" towards curbing greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced new regulations on emissions from power plants and oil refineries as a way to fight global warming. In a statement on the EPA's website late Thursday, administrator Lisa Jackson said the rules targeting "the largest industrial pollution sources" would go into effect next year under the Clean Air Act. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG [greenhouse gas] pollution that threatens the health and welfare of ...
Wilderness Restored? Obama Plans to Overturn Bush Environmental Policy
By David Knowles - AOL NewsSome of America's most beautiful, untamed spaces are now poised to stay that way. Reversing a policy set forth when George W. Bush was president, the Obama administration says it plans to make more than 200 million of acres of land eligible for "Wild Lands" federal protection, The Associated Press reported. The vast acreage, which is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management, was made available for commercial development under Bush Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton. In a statement released today, Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar described his motivation for overturning the Bush-era ...
Two Oil Spills, Two Government Responses: Lessons From the BP and Exxon Valdez Disasters
By Catherine Ngai - Politics DailyA little after midnight on May 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled from the 978-foot oil tanker, wreaking devastation on wildlife and residents along 350 miles of shoreline. More than two decades later, an offshore oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and injured 17 others. Thousands of jobs were lost as oil leaked for months; the environmental impact was massive and is still being assessed. The BP spill escalated public distrust of the oil industry and the government, which was ...
New Drilling Banned in Eastern Gulf, Atlantic Coast
By Laura Parker - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- The Obama administration announced today that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted it to scuttle plans to open waters off Florida and along the Atlantic coast to offshore oil and gas drilling for at least seven years. The change, detailed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a conference call, reverses key components of a sweeping energy plan President Barack Obama announced last March. "We are adjusting our strategy in areas where there are no active leases," Salazar said. "Our most appropriate course is to focus on areas with existing leases and not ...
Obama Hails Passage of Settlement for Native Americans, Black Farmers
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyAs congressional leaders and the White House continue efforts to reach a compromise on issues ranging from the expiration of tax cuts to tweaks in the U.S.-Russia START arms treaty, the House approval of the Claims Settlement Act of 2010 brought praise from President Obama and the Departments of Justice, Interior and Agriculture. In a statement Tuesday, the president said: "I am pleased that today, the House has joined the Senate in passing the Claims Settlement Act of 2010. This important legislation will fund the agreements reached in the Pigford II lawsuit, brought by African American ...
Interview: Michael Bennet on Colorado Politics and Challenger Ken Buck
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyLike many Democrats in Congress, Michael Bennet didn't expect he'd have to work so hard to defend his Senate seat this year, but for Bennet the circumstances are a little different than his colleagues' – Bennet didn't expect to be in Washington at all, let alone in the professional fight of his life against Republican Ken Buck. Two years ago, life was good for Colorado Democrats, including Michael Bennet. The Mile High City was the site of the Democrats' political convention, and one of the happy hosts was Bennet's college buddy, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Bennet, then Denver's ...
Obama Administration Lifts Gulf Drilling Ban
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Oct. 12) -- The Obama administration today announced an early end to the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling off American shores, but it has added tough safety rules for the drilling companies and a regime of government tests that could delay the start of new operations for weeks or months. The drilling ban had been put in place following the April 20 explosion at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico and was set to end Nov. 30. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the moratorium would end sooner because the government was satisfied with its new oil and gas safety reforms, the improved state ...
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