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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will step down in March, Obama administration officials said. Salazar has run the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama's first term.
Four federal agencies and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation have come up with a plan for improving the protection of sites held sacred by American Indian...
House Republican leaders on Monday urged President Obama to "stop campaigning" and hunker down with Congress to find an alternative to the bludgeon of spending cuts ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is announcing more reforms that he says will improve environmental protections for oil and gas leasing on public lands. Salazar portrayed the ref...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar concedes the government failed to hold the oil industry accountable and ensure safety in offshore oil drilling.
A Senate panel has cleared GOP Sen. David Vitter for blocking a pay increase for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar until he approves more offshore drilling permits.Sala...
Hilda Solis says she's open to all possibilities and does not rule out position as Mayor of Los Angeles or Governor of California.
A 'miss' to Gov. Chris Christie for ripping into the Republican Congress
The U.S. Department of Interior is investigating whether mining companies are skirting royalty rules as they increase exports of coal to Asia, but no violations have...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated outdoor business executive Sally Jewell to lead the Interior Department.The Interior Department manages more than 500 m...
Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be leaving his post, the White House confirmed Friday, exiting the administration at the start of President Obama's second term afte...
On the cusp of his second term, President Barack Obama solemnly honored the nation's fallen soldiers Sunday before taking the oath of office in an intimate White Hou...
President Obama was sworn in Sunday to a second term, during a subdued and private White House ceremony that precedes the pomp of Monday's public inauguration. The p...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will step down from his position in President Obama's Cabinet to spend time with his family on his ranch in Colorado, Fox News confirm...
The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and hel...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new order imposing a moratorium on deepwater drilling could be refined to reflect offshore conditions, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednes...
HAMMOND, La. (AP) — At first, BP tried to stop the oil rushing into the Gulf of Mexico by flipping a blowout preventer switch. A week ago, they attempted to capture ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says 'no one knows' if US gas could reach $9/gal and that skyrocketing prices are out of officials' control ... but is that really true?
The Senate Energy Committee has voted to move President Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell to be Interior secretary to the Senate floor.The committee's 19-3 vote cam...
When it comes to the automatic spending cuts that began taking effect this month, federal lawmakers spared programs that serve the nation's most vulnerable -- such a...