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07/13/11 Hanford in Eastern Washington would be part of a new national historical park to commemorate the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb, according to a proposal made Wednesday by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Other major sites of bomb development, Los Alamos, New Mexico and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, would [...]
07/12/11 A House committee on Tuesday refused to kill a budget amendment that would preserve uranium mining rights on about 1 million acres of public lands near the Grand Canyon. The amendment would block the Obama administration from imposing a long-term moratorium on mining in areas north and south of the canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month endorsed a 20-year ban, a proposal currently ...
07/07/11 Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., attached language to an Interior Department appropriations bill this week that would prevent the Obama administration from adopting a proposal to ban new uranium mining on public lands near the Grand Canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month extended a temporary moratorium on new mining across 1 million acres north and south of Grand Canyon National Park. He ...
06/28/11 Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead says he hopes a meeting with U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar results in a concrete agreement on wolf management.
06/24/11 Baltimore is one of seven pilot cities nationwide participating in the rollout of a new federal urban waters initiative. Eleven federal agencies led by the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of the Interior and Agriculture are spearheading the effort. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plan to announce the [...]
06/20/11 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar stood on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park today to announce an extension to the temporary ban on mining in the area.
06/16/11 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has designated two sites in Oregon as National Natural Landmarks.
06/16/11 U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday designated Hanging Lake, formed by layers of travertine built up over thousands of years, a National Natural Landmark. The lake will be one of 591 unique natural places in the country included in the national registry.
06/15/11 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today said six new sites, including Hanging Lake and the Golden Fossil Areas in Colorado, have been added to the roster of National Natural Landmarks.
06/10/11 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today will ask members of Congress to move forward with legislation to create new wilderness a...
06/03/11 Mary Ann Lisanti has been appointed to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Advisory Council, which consults with U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the National Park Service. Since serving as city manager of Havre de Grace from from 1997 to 2002 Lisanti has been executive director of Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway, which has [...]
05/27/11 The first three of dozens of federally backed greenway-conservation projects across the nation will be in Colorado, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.
05/26/11 The first three projects of President Barack Obama's national America's Great Outdoors Initiative will roll out in Colorado, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this morning during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new visitor's center at Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
05/05/11 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is endorsing a call from a federal commission, which includes actress Eva Longoria, to build a national museum devoted to American Latino history and culture as part of the Smithsonian Institution.
05/04/11 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that gray wolves in Montana and Idaho, as well as portions of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and north-central Utah will be formally removed from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife on Thursday.
04/29/11 PIERRE, S.D. - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is visiting South Dakota to talk about a proposed project aimed at protecting habitat crucial to migratory waterfowl in South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana.
04/29/11 U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says a proposed project aimed at protecting habitat crucial to migratory waterfowl in South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana represents a new wave of conservation.
04/29/11 PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says a proposed project aimed at protecting habitat crucial to migratory waterfowl in South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana represents a new wave of conservation.
04/26/11 The Bureau of Land Management will begin a series of hearings in the West on the impacts of oil shale development. The hearings begin Tuesday in Salt Lake City after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar decided to take a fresh look at a federal oil shale plan that was released in 2008 by the Bush administration.
04/23/11 An estimated 1.5 million Americans have some form of autism. One of them is Mireya Salazar, a little girl who happens to be Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's granddaughter.
04/22/11 An order from U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar makes it easier to deem lands near Tucson as wilderness areas, which could restrict motorized access and new mining claims. | 
