Don't you just love it when news like this pops and you have to have a subscription to read it? It's a lot like this whole process: since last night (on email lists) this news has been said to be a rumor making rounds through the mining industry. Now it looks like a done deal. So when do we, the people, ever get to weigh in on it? Is this yet another example of the extractive industries dictating policy to our bought and paid for Congress? We'll see, I guess...but I sure feel like somebody just flipped me the bird...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined plans today for moving the Office of Surface Mining to the Bureau of Land Management.
Salazar said he would sign a secretarial order today for the merger. And he promised to involve both employees and lawmakers in drawing up a reorganization plan by next year.
via www.eenews.net
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