| Utah senator is wrong to punish Interior on canceled leases |
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| Written by New York Times | |
| Monday, 27 April 2009 | |
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s first big decision was to cancel 77 oil and gas leases in Utah that were awarded in the final months of the Bush administration. Their cancellation sent a clear signal that the Obama administration would take a more measured approach to energy exploration on public lands and that the drill-now-drill-anywhere days were over. Read more...
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