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Salazar selects former DOI associate solicitor as MMS director
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar named Liz Birnbaum, a lawyer with two decades of federal and private sector energy and environment experience, director …
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Salazar defends proposed increased costs for producers
Nick Snow OGJ Washington Editor WASHINGTON, DC, Mar. 3 -- US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar defended plans to increase oil and gas royalties and fees on federal leases as he testified Mar. 3 before a US Senate …
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Senator asks Defense secretary for thoughts on OCS plan
… 12 -- US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) asked US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates for his reaction to US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s plan to expand federal oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. “We’ve talked many …
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Birnbaum resigns as MMS director
… problems within the agency, US Minerals Management Service Director S. Elizabeth Birnbaum resigned on May 27. US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that Birnbaum left “on her own terms and on her own volition.” Her resignation came 2 days …
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GOP members ask DOI to improve categorical exclusions
Four US House Republicans urged US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to improve, instead of jettison, categorical exclusions in response to a recent Government Accountability Office …
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US senator asks Gates for thoughts on OCS plan
US Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) asked US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates for his reaction to US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's plan to expand federal oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. "We've talked many …
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US House passes bill to speed offshore drilling permit responses
Nick Snow Washington Editor The US House of Representative approved a bill on May 11 that would require the US Interior secretary to act on offshore drilling permit applications within 30 days. HR 1229, which was approved by 263 to 123 votes …
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DOI review finds inadequate consultations before Utah lease sale
A review of the process leading to leasing of 77 tracts in a December sale in Utah which US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar later canceled found flaws leading up to the sale, the US Department of the Interior said on June 11. Salazar, who …
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Salazar announces oil shale lease round, addenda inquiry
Nick Snow OGJ Washington Editor WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 21 -- US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a second round of federal oil shale leases on Oct. 20 with substantially different terms than the first round …
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MMS publishes preliminary revised 5-year OCS program
… which removes from the schedule five lease sales off Alaska but keeps Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea in 2008 after US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar decided it was appropriate. Publication of a revised 2007-12 OCS lease program came nearly a year …
