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...not reviewed the notice and could not immediately respond.In announcing the listing, then-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said endangered species law would not be used to set climate policy or limit greenhouse gas emissions, a rule affirmed...
...populations," he said. Diminished sea ice habitat was the reason cited by former Interior Department Secretary Dirk Kempthorne in 2008 for listing polar bears as a threatened species. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the...
...ice, their primary habitat, is projected to disappear each summer.In the same announcement, then-Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said endangered species law would not be used to set climate policy or limit greenhouse gas emissions, a rule affirmed...
...Alaska and hunting groups argued that the listing was unnecessary.Along with the listing, then-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne created a "special rule" stating that the Endangered Species Act would not be used to set climate policy or limit...
WASHINGTON - A Senate vote on President Bush's nomination of Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne to serve as interior secretary could occur as early as today, after Sen. Mary Landrieu dropped her opposition. Sound off on...
...Colorado has created a task force to examine public land that had been covered by the Clinton ban. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne has said he would wait until next year to ask the Forest Service to open millions of acres of forest, and has asked...
...the ground! Get on the ground!" New interior head supports volcano work VANCOUVER, Wash. - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Wednesday that volcanic monitoring done by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Northwest is essential to emergency...
...might bring a deadly avian flu strain to the United States. Sound off on the important issues at Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, visiting a bird nesting site outside Barrow, reported Tuesday that 13,000 bird samples have been tested. While...
PRUDHOE BAY - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was getting his first look Wednesday at BP Alaska's pipeline corrosion that shut down some North Slope oil production, but said...
...be perceived as wanting to return pipes to use prematurely. But in briefings given Wednesday to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, who is on a three-day tour of North Slope oil facilities, and in separate interviews, BP officials clearly were...