U.S. Brushes Aside N.M. Drilling Protests
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Despite protests by the governor and environmentalists, the federal government decided to open nearly all of New Mexico's vast Otero Mesa for exploratory drilling but vowed that the oil and gas industry won't have a "free-for-all."
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By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 9--WASILLA -- A proposed permit to allow exploratory coal drilling  around the Matanuska Valley community of Chickaloon prompted a deluge of  responses from concerned residents and others.
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Congress has taken a major step toward allowing oil and gas drilling in coastal waters that have been off limits for a quarter-century.
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The Bush administration wants to eliminate federal support for geothermal power just as many U.S. states are looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions and raise renewable power output.
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In response to protests from those nations, the State Department said that the charges, laid out in this week's report from the Iraq Survey Group, were not legal indictments and were intended only to ...
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The U.S. government will announce on  Tuesday that it is suspending indefinitely a key environmental  review on drilling for natural gas in a scenic area in Montana,  which will halt drilling at least temporarily, the Bureau of  Land Management said on Monday.
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The United States will not attend next   week's summit in Cuba of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that   will gather some of its most hostile critics just 90 miles from   U.S. soil, the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba said on Thursday.
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Officials in this liberal city may soften their anti-recruitment stance toward the U.S. Marines in the face of widespread criticism
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 9 -- The Bush administration Thursday sought to end speculation that it has lost confidence in U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan over his handling of the oil-for-food program in Iraq, insisting that it does not support calls from some members of Congress for his resignation.
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SEOUL -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday sought to fend off complaints from key partners in the effort to end North Korea's nuclear programs that the Bush administration has not been sufficiently creative or willing to compromise in the negotiations.
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Sunday, Dec. 17:  The Bush administration is trying again to stifle the public's say in decisions about logging and mining in the national forests.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.
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Auditors say the Interior Department suppressed efforts to recover millions from oil companies they said were cheating the government.
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The Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit on climate change in the Arctic for fear of angering Congress and the Bush Administration
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Republican leaders in the U.S. House  of Representatives on Tuesday called off a vote on a limited  offshore oil and natural gas drilling bill which would open 8.3  million acres in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge has upheld  the Bush administration's plans to allow oil drilling  throughout a large section of federal land on Alaska's North  Slope, rejecting arguments by environmental groups that  unfettered oil development would harm the region.
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The Energy Department will hold off purchases of oil for the government's emergency reserve through the upcoming winter, the department said Monday.