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Sen. Salazar Blocking Presidential Nomination
July 12, 2007 4:21 PM
The nominee is James Caswell, whom the President has tapped to head the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM. The BLM manages the most public land of any federal government agency, and also administers the government's mineral estate, meaning it controls who gets access to oil and natural gas. Salazar says he's worried that energy development is going to "run roughshod" over Colorado in the coming years if the Bush administration doesn't pay more heed to locals who are asking for a slower, more deliberate pace of development. So he's blocking Caswell's nomination until he gets assurances Colorado concerns will be listened to in Washington.
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Posted by Eric Whitney on July 12, 2007 4:21 PM | Permalink
