#1 Click this link to see 2009 News Photos page --> 02/07/2009
U.S. environmentalists have been celebrating after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reversed a move by the previous administration to lease wilderness land in Utah to energy companies for exploration. Actor Robert Redford called the move “a sign that after eight long years of rapacious greed and backdoor dealings, our government is returning a sense of balance to the way it manages our lands.”
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In 2010, grilled by skeptical lawmakers, Interior Secretary Kenneth Lee “Ken” Salazar acknowledged his agency had been lax in overseeing offshore drilling activities, and that might have contributed to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. #KenSalazar#Explosion2010DeepwaterHorizon
