{"id":1976,"date":"2006-03-17T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/03\/17\/gale-norton-in-pants\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T22:24:00","slug":"gale-norton-in-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/gale-norton-in-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Gale Norton in Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmental-action.org\/images\/bush_dirk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.environmental-action.org\/images\/bush_dirk.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s how the NRDC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/media\/pressreleases\/060317a.asp\">characterizes<\/a> Dubya &amp; co.&#8217;s new Interior Secretary Nominee, <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.idaho.gov\/\">Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne<\/a>. Other mainline environmental organizations are sounding similar notes: the League of Conservation voters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcv.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/page.jsp?itemID=28821333\">notes<\/a> his 1% lifetime score by their criteria, and the Sierra Club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/pressroom\/releases\/pr2006-03-16.asp\">calls his nomination<\/a> &#8220;a continuation of the same anti-environmental polices that we have seen for the last five years.&#8221;  Must be just a kneejerk reaction against the Bush administration, right?  Or, it could be Governor Kempthorne&#8217;s history of<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<\/li>\n<li>Opposing the protection of 60 million acres of wild forests<\/li>\n<li>Working to weaken the Endangered Species Act and Safe Drinking Water Act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>      As Senator and Governor, Kempthorne has proved hostile to a variety of environmental issues&#8230;. Notably, as Senator Kempthorne co-sponsored a bill to take polluters off the hook for millions of tons of lead, zinc and other toxic metals into the Coeur D&#8217;Alene River Basin-instead leaving taxpayers with the clean-up bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose we could&#8217;ve expected any better, and I don&#8217;t think Kempthorne will likely face any major opposition.  Still, we ought to speak out on this: Environmental Action has created an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmental-action.org\/wilderness.asp?id=1492&amp;id4=ES\">action alert<\/a> with letter to send to your Senators.  I suppose there&#8217;s the slight chance that Republicans in Congress could use Kempthorne&#8217;s nomination as another venue for distancing themselves from the President &#8212; I&#8217;m not counting on it, though.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/dubya\" rel=\"tag\">dubya<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/kempthorne\" rel=\"tag\">kempthorne<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/interior\" rel=\"tag\">interior<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/nomination\" rel=\"tag\">nomination<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/US\" rel=\"tag\">US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how the NRDC characterizes Dubya &amp; co.&#8217;s new Interior Secretary Nominee, Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne. Other mainline environmental organizations are sounding similar notes: the League of Conservation voters notes&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gale Norton in Pants &#8226; Sustainablog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/gale-norton-in-pants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gale Norton in Pants &#8226; Sustainablog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"That&#8217;s how the NRDC characterizes Dubya &amp; co.&#8217;s new Interior Secretary Nominee, Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne. 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