> Subject: Fwd: Sierra Club press release: Sierra Club Praises  
> Nominations for Interior, Agriculture
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> Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:56 PM
> Subject: Sierra Club press release: Sierra Club Praises Nominations  
> for Interior, Agriculture
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2008
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>             Sierra Club Praises Salazar, Vilsack Nominations
>
> 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.
>
> Statement of Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
>
> Senator Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior:
>
> "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.
>
> "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.
>
> "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."
>
> Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture:
>
> "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.
>
> "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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