This article focuses on TX Governor Rick Perry, but also mentions his coordination with the governors of LA, MS, and AL in their opposition to the proposed catch-share programs on marine game species in the Gulf of Mexico that would prohibit recreational anglers from harvesting v …

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Symrna-based Glock received $960 in stimulus money to equip three Department of Interior Recovery Oversight officers with 9 mm handguns.

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The Senate narrowly defeated a cloture vote this morning that would have lifted a Republican "hold" on the nominee for Interior deputy secretary, David Hayes.

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"More than three-fourths of the nation's electricity demand comes from coastal states and the wind potential off the coasts of the lower 48 states actually exceeds our entire U.S.

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The report drafted by the department's inspector general Earl Devaney deplored "a culture of ethical failure" in which regulators received gifts including ski junkets and golf outings. The investigation uncovered a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity," Devaney said in a  …

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Suppose for a moment that Congress listens to President Bush's remarks Wednesday and removes the decades-old ban on offshore drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf. Who wins, aside from the oil industry?

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The class-action lawsuit, Cobell v. Kempthorne, targets a federal trust fund that handles revenues from activities like oil drilling and logging on land owned by individual Indians and tribes.

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"We found that NPS has allowed private individuals or exclusive clubs to monopolize desirable locations near major metropolitan areas for decades to the exclusion of the general public, although we could not identify the extent of this permitting.

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A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has repeatedly altered scientific field reports to minimize protections for imperiled species and disclosed confidential information to private groups seeking to affect policy decisions, the department's inspector gene …

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Gale Norton is back providing oversight of energy development issues on public lands in the American West, this time as a key legal advisor for a major global oil company.

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