Word: colorado
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...greens are so sure about the Colorado Senator, and Salazar's nomination could represent Obama's first conflict with the environmental community. Although mainstream green groups like Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) were quick to praise Salazar - Dan Grossman, head of EDF's Rocky Mountain office, calls Salazar a "rare talent" - other environmentalists were far less impressed. "His environmental record is pretty mixed," says Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, Ariz. "He's far from the most antienvironmental guy out there, but he's no environmental hero...
...chief complaints about Salazar - a rancher who worked as Colorado's attorney general before his election to the Senate in 2004 - center on his ties to the ranching and mining industries and some of his votes as a Senator. As attorney general, he threatened to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - which he would lead as Interior Secretary - over the listing of the black-tailed prairie dog as endangered. (In Colorado, the animal is still classified as a "pest" to ranchers...
...other environmentalists argue that Salazar's centrism will serve him well at Interior, where he'll need to balance protection of the land and species with legitimate development of the country's natural resources. They point to his past practice in Colorado as a water-rights lawyer as evidence that he understands one of the most important environmental issues facing the U.S., as well as to his opposition in the Senate to the destructive practice of oil shale exploration in the Rocky Mountains. Industry representatives from mining and energy reacted positively to Salazar's appointment, seeing him as a pragmatist...
...them--have consequences that will not be easily reversed. The new laws would allow: ? Federal agencies to develop land without scientific oversight ? Farms to dump waste into nearby waterways ? Weaker standards for safe drinking water ? Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and oil drilling in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming ? Increased emissions for coal-fired stations ? Loaded, concealed firearms in national parks...
...felled by only 66 first-place votes. ‘BRING JOY TO HARVARD CHILDREN’ When election results were released online yesterday evening, presidential candidate Michael C. Koenigs ’09 was nowhere to be found. Koenigs left campus early for his home in Denver, Colorado where he spent the night with his family. “It’s not appropriate to celebrate,” campaign manager Ryan W. Taney ’09 said. The night before Koenigs acknowledged that he would be surprised if his avowedly humorous campaign received more than...