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Geotimes
March 2004
Megan Sever |
Interior back online Yesterday, a U.S. appellate court lifted an injunction that had forced the Department of Interior to disconnect most of its computer systems on March 15.   |
Mother Jones
Mar/Apr 2002
Tom Dunkel & Bill Hogan |
A Broken Trust The government cannot account for billions of dollars it owes to Native Americans... |
Geotimes
May 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Bush to Nominate New Director for U.S. Geological Survey Dirk Kempthorne was nominated as Secretary of the Interior, after Gale Norton resigned from the position March 10. Now, in the latest shakeup in the U.S. Department of the Interior, the USGS might soon be under new leadership. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2010 |
Google Sues the Government Over Mail Contract Nobody likes coming in second place but what if you weren't even allowed in the race? That's Google's complaint against the U.S. Department of the Interior. |
Geotimes
March 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
No lockup on gas in the West On federal lands in the Rocky Mountain region, the story is gas -- natural gas and lots of it. And most of the area's natural gas is available with minimal leasing restrictions, according to a government survey released in January. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Lubick & Sever |
Homeland security tops Bush budget, again As the pundits decry President Bush's latest deficit spending, the geosciences have taken a hit. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
John Goff |
The Long Trail The government's tallying of Native American trust money may well be the most ambitious accounting project in U.S. history. It's also the most controversial. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Lubick & Sever |
An Austere Budget for 2006 The overall winners in the Bush administration's budget proposal for next year were, once again, the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. For science agencies, it was a mixed bag, with global observation systems faring well, but with research in energy resources taking some hard hits. |
Outside
June 2002
Weston Kosova |
What's Gale Norton Trying to Hide? George W. Bush's Secretary of the Interior keeps a low profile, keeps her mouth shut, and never picks a fight. As the steward of 507 million public acres, she has deftly combined an aggressive, pro-extraction agenda and Bush's wartime clout to steamroll environmentalists... |
Geotimes
February 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
USGS Says no Hush Orders Given The U.S. Geological Survey is not muzzling scientists, agency officials say. |
Geotimes
March 2003
Greg Peterson |
Congress confronts a depleting aquifer Approximately 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the U.S. comes from a single source: the High Plains Aquifer. In March, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed a bill that provides a scientific basis for extending the usable life of the aquifer. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Minerals Cut Again Again, the President's proposed budget for 2007 scuttled the USGS's Mineral Resources Program. The requested cuts affect the collection of data on everything from mineral formation to the extent of worldwide deposits of economic commodities. |
D-Lib
June 2001 |
Tapestry of Time and Terrain Through computer processing and enhancement, a production team from USGS has brought together into digital tapestry existing images of the nation's lower 48 states... |
Geotimes
March 2004
Larry Kennedy |
Dim Prospects for Geosciences `05 Reflecting on my experiences as a congressional science fellow, here are my guesses regarding funding and policy decisions in 2004 that might have an impact on geoscience professionals. |
Geotimes
February 2006 |
Budget Blues and Bonuses In his State of the Union Address, President Bush gave the public a sneak-peak at his funding priorities for fiscal year 2007 in the sciences: In a nutshell... Renewable resources, alternative energy shifts... Other basic research... etc. |
Science News
January 13, 2007 |
Science Safari: Natural Hazards The U.S. Geological Survey has launched a new Web site about the threat of natural disasters. |
