[PCA] NEWS: Articles about EPA & Interior confirmation hearings

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090114/sc_mcclatchy/3144966

EPA nominee vows to put science ahead of special interests
By Renee Schoof, Mcclatchy Newspapers - Wed Jan 14, 6:07 pm ET

WASHINGTON -- Lisa Jackson, President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run 
the Environmental Protection Agency, promised Wednesday to lead the 
agency "with science as my guide" and not to allow political appointees to 
trump the advice of EPA scientists.

Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee bombarded Jackson 
with environmental issues, everything from climate disruption to coal ash 
disposal and new air-pollution rules.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-salazar-confirmation16-2009jan16,0,2519183.story

Ken Salazar promises reform at Interior Department
The Interior secretary-designate and senator from Colorado says at his 
confirmation hearing that he would 'clean up the mess' and put science 
first in his decision making.
By Jim Tankersley
9:50 AM PST, January 15, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for 
Interior secretary pledged today to "clean up the mess" at a department 
rocked by scandals and questionable science during the tenure of President 
Bush.

Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) also promised to reform the nation's signature 
mining law, to defend public lands and endangered species and to consider 
a full plate of options for energy independence, including offshore oil 
drilling and, under the right conditions, oil shale development.

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