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4 Jan, 2008 6:10 pm
News that Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will not permit the St. Regis Mohawks and Empire Resorts
to have their dream come true for a full-fledged casino at Monticello Raceway hurts and will smart for awhile. But it's now time for ... as a community. But it's going to take big
thinking and big leadership and a long term commitment. Politicians like Dirk Kempthorne and John
McCain can make fun of our proud history and turn their backs on our future. It's easy ...
14 May, 2008 7:43 pm
... Court Judge to be completed by May 15, 2008. At a 2:30 pm press conference today, Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the polar bear would be listed as a threatened species, yet the announcement did not satisfy environmentalists. Indeed, ... under
Endangered Species Act Rule will allow continuation of vital energy production in Alaska." In his announcement speech, Secretary Kempthorne
clearly stated that his announcement reflected White House views as well. "The most significant part of today's ...
16 Sep, 2008 8:04 pm
Jon Goodrich contributed the following preview of the upcoming term's Carcieri v. Kempthorne. Jon is a 3L at the University of Richmond School
of Law and a 2008 Akin Gump summer associate. Please be sure to check out ... this action challenging the decision in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, naming
the Secretary of the Interior (now Dirk Kempthorne) and Franklin Keel, Eastern Area Director of the
BIA, as defendants. The district court affirmed the Secretary's decision. On ...
14 May, 2008 10:08 pm
News release: "Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne...announced that he is accepting the
recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
21 Mar, 2008 1:58 am
... Petitions at Citizenship and Immigration Services 03/20/2008 Letter to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne From EPW Chairwoman Barbara Boxer Letter Requests an Appearance Before the Committee Regarding the ... Bear Under the Endangered Species Act
03/20/2008 Letter to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne From the Senate EPW Committee Chair
Barbara Boxer (PDF 39.2 KB) Letter Requests that Kempthorne Appear at a Hearing Regarding Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species
Act 03/20 ...
14 May, 2008 4:21 pm
... bear will be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, a decision announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Dirk
Kempthorne. Here are stories from the NYT and WaPo. Environmental groups had hoped to use the listing ... the Bush administration had long
argued that a listing wouldn't require it to "mitigate the cause of the species decline." Kempthorne agreed with this position, stating
yesterday, according to the Times, that "when the Endangered Species Act was adopted in 1973, I ...
18 Jan, 2008 12:41 am
... Oversight and Investigations Chairman Bart Stupak (PDF 167 KB) Letter Requests Information About the Use of Bisphenol A in Children's Products 01/17/2008 Letter to Secretary of the
Interior Dirk Kempthorne From 11 Senators (PDF 164 KB) Letter Urges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... to
Polar Bears Under the Endangered Species Act 01/17/2008 Letter to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne From Five House Members Letter Regarding the Delay in Determining the Status of the Polar Bear 01/17 ...
15 May, 2008 6:02 am
... " under the Endangered Species Act. "Threatened" is a step down from "endangered" under the Act. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne acknowledged that diminished sea ice threatened the future of the bears, but employed a seldom used provision ... to reduce greenhouse gases, as
environmental activists have hoped to do. Prior to becoming Secretary of the Interior, Kempthorne was a strong political opponent of the ESA.
The good news is that all the current candidates for president acknowledge the harm ...
15 May, 2008 5:23 pm
... with the decision to list polar bears (noted here, history here), DOI issued a 4(d) rule. Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's comments announcing the listing decision also lay out its limits: it will "not open the door ... sound way." In other words, the rule is crafted,
in part, to minimize impact on oil operations. This is not surprising, given that Kempthorne, roundly criticized by environmental groups upon
his nomination, complained in the announcement that the ESA prevents him "from taking into account ...
15 May, 2008 9:39 am
... . Some people might try to use this ruling as evidence of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; Interior Secretary Dirk
Kempthorne, however, quickly squashed that idea. He said, "Listing the polar bear as threatened can reduce avoidable losses ... list the polar
bear as 'threatened' appears to be based more on politics than science….It's disappointing that Secretary Kempthorne failed to stand up to
liberal special interest groups who advocated this listing." The view from the other side of the ...
30 Dec, 2006 9:02 pm
Press release: "Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne...announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service is proposing to list the polar...
27 Dec, 2006 9:26 am
... of Bush II has admitted not only that global climate change is occurring and that greenhouse gases are involved, but that its implications are indeed dire - for polar bears at
least. Today, no lesser presidential spokesman than the Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne,
announced that we are concerned the polar bears' habitat may literally be melting...Based on current analysis, there are concerns about the effect of ...
1 Mar, 2007 12:31 am
... change and the writing of legislation for consideration by the Energy and Commerce Committee ENVIRONMENT 02/28/2007 Letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne from Rep. Bobby Jindal Letter requests the secretary to negotiate a lease with the State of
Louisiana that would permit a coastal restoration project at Pelican Island in Plaquemines Parish 02/28/2007 Form Letter to Environmental Organizations from House Energy ...
17 May, 2007 10:20 am
... to Oberstar's request for a follow-up review to determine if Federal Aviation Administration facilities are complying with the agency's new, written policy for staffing on midnight
shifts 05/16/2007 Letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne from 75 House Members (PDF 152 KB)
Letter opposes any attempt to rewrite the Endangered Species Act that does not involve Congress 05/16/2007 Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 15 ...
27 Aug, 2007 2:50 pm
... name through the mud? If politics were the reason, wouldn't they have made similar claims about all Bush appointees? Why haven't they dragged the good names of Condi Rice, Henry
Paulson and Dirk Kempthorne through the mud? That sort of analysis is just far too reality-based.
Here is how Bush intuits the matter: 1) Alberto is a loyal buddy; 2) People in Congress are saying nasty things about Alberto; 3) Therefore, the people ...
17 Nov, 2007 7:35 am
... .gov/portal3.htm Honorable Michael D. Crapo (R) 111 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-6142 E-mail Web Form: http://crapo.senate.gov Web:
http://crapo.senate.gov Governor Honorable Dirk Kempthorne Office of the Governor 700 West Jefferson,
2nd Floor P.O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0034 Phone: (208) 334-2100 Fax: (208) 334-2175 E-mail Web Form: www2.state.id.us/gov/ourgov/contact. ...
10 Jan, 2008 5:15 pm
Forty-seven lawmakers have signed a letter asking Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to lift
Reagan-era restrictions that prevent citizens from carrying readily accessible firearms onto lands managed by the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. read more
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16 Jan, 2008 12:46 am
... Highway Administration Administrator J. Richard Capka From National Transportation Safety Board Inspectors (PDF 60.6 KB) Letter Discusses Causes of the I-35W Bridge Collapse in
Minneapolis 01/15/2008 Letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne From Rep. Doc Hastings Letter
Regarding Handling of Unidentifiable Human Remains Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 01/15/2008 Letter to President Bush From Sen. Sherrod Brown Letter
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22 Jan, 2008 2:15 am
... the World Affairs Council Remarks Address U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Nuclear Terrorism 01/18/2008 Response Letter From Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Department of Interior Julie A. MacDonald To Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne (PDF 880
KB) Letter is in Response to Allegations of Misuse of Office 01/18/2008 Sample Revised Form 1099 From the Social Security Administration (PDF ...
31 Jan, 2008 10:35 am
... , Central Division, Case No. 2:08cv00064 (DAK) (January 23, 2008) (Plaintiffs' Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief) "This suit challenges the decisions by the Bureau of
Land Management, the Department of the Interior, and Secretary of the Department of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne (collectively referred to as 'BLM') authorizing the sale of 60 oil and gas leases that allow surface occupancy on tens of thousands of acres ...
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