| Interior Secretary rolls out new oil, gas leasing plan |
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| Written by JOHN M. BRODER, New York Times | |
| Thursday, 07 January 2010 | |
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The interior secretary, Ken Salazar, said Wednesday that his department would conduct more rigorous reviews of oil and gas leasing on public lands, declaring that the agency would no longer be a “candy store” for the petroleum industry, as he said it had been during the Bush administration. Read more...
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