Politico Interviews Interior Secretary Salazar, Botches the Headline
Here are a few more appropriate headlines, based on their interview.
Salazar Accuses Bush Interior Department of Skirting the Law:
“After almost four months in the job, I have concluded that there was the skirting of the law and shortcuts that occurred in many different things and in different ways,” he said. “Shortcuts were taken to try to get to a policy.”“I knew there was going to be a mess to clean up,” he added. “I knew that there were problems in this department that had to be dealt with. It was one of the things that I told the president that I would do. And so I wasn’t surprised by what I found.”
Salazar Pushed Bold Energy Agenda at Interior Department:
“We have a huge amount to contribute to that agenda here in the department because we control 20 percent of the land mass,” he said. “We have driven through the tangles of the jurisdictional disputes and have now finalized the rules for the development of offshore wind [power] here in the United States. We’re doing the same thing with solar and wind onshore. … We are on the verge of what I think is going to be a major step forward with respect to the whole renewable energy world.”Salazar said wind and solar energy could mean “hundreds of thousands of jobs — and they’re good jobs that are going to be here in the U.S.” He said that at the moment, the bigger economic opportunity is in wind, “because the wind industry has been much more developed in this country than has solar.”
Interior Secretary Salazar ties Clean Energy to National Security:
“There are global and national imperatives that are driving this agenda,” he said. “One is our national security, two is our environmental security and three is our economic security. … So those are the drivers, and I think there’s broad consensus — including some Republicans on board — saying we have to deal with those major challenges of our time. … You’re going to see a lot of that happening. It’s a new day for the country with respect to energy.”
Despite Politico’s insistence on focusing on substance over style, the article is worth reading.
