Here is he official Sierra Club response...


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> Date: December 17, 2008 12:55:52 p CST
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> Subject: Fwd: Sierra Club Praises Nominations for Interior,  
> Agriculture
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2008
> CONTACT: David Willett, 202.675.6698
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> Sierra Club Praises Salazar, Vilsack Nominations
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> Washington, D.C.—President-Elect Barack Obama today formally  
> announced the nominations of Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado for  
> Secretary of the Interior and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for  
> Secretary of Agriculture.
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> Statement of Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
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> Senator Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior:
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> "The Sierra Club is very pleased with the nomination of Ken Salazar  
> to head the Interior Department.  As a Westerner and a rancher, he  
> understands the value of our public lands, parks, and wildlife and  
> has been a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's reckless  
> efforts to sell-off our public lands to Big Oil and other special  
> interests.        Senator Salazar has been a leader in protecting  
> places like the Roan Plateau and he has stood up against the Bush's  
> administration's dangerous rush to develop oil shale in Colorado and  
> across the West.
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> "Senator Salazar has also been a leading voice in calling for the  
> development of the West's vast solar, wind, and geothermal  
> resources.  He will make sure that we create the good-paying green  
> jobs that will fuel our economic recovery without harming the public  
> lands he will be charged with protecting.
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> "Senator Salazar will inherit an agency that has suffered from a  
> pervasive rot under the Bush administration due to widespread  
> corruption, simple incompetence, and severe underfunding.  We are  
> confident that Senator Salazar will work with President-Elect Obama  
> to undo the damage of the Bush years and chart a course that will  
> allow this vast agency to return to its proud legacy of protecting  
> our last wild places, wildlife, and vast natural resources."
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> Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture:
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> "The Sierra Club congratulates Governor Vilsack on his appointment  
> to head the Department of Agriculture.  We look forward to working  
> with him in this new role. With a Secretary Vilsack overseeing the  
> National Forest System and the Conservation Reserve Program, we are  
> optimistic that USDA can once again become a responsible steward of  
> wilderness and vital habitat for wildlife.
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> "Governor Vilsack can play an important role in helping to bring  
> about the clean energy economy in a way that benefits both farmers  
> and rural communities and our environment.  The USDA can take the  
> lead in moving us past the corn-based ethanol of today toward the  
> next-generation biofuels of tomorrow.  These next-generation  
> biofuels will not just provide farmers with new sources of income  
> and help us break our dangerous dependence on oil, but they will  
> also help President-Elect Obama achieve his ambitious plans to  
> tackle global warming."
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