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The Yellowstone success story and those who want to kill it.

Will the BP spill prove to be Judgment Day for the decades of growing corporate rule over government?

Ken Salazar is one of the strongest advocates of offshore drilling in Washington. Will his Interior Department really enforce the moratorium on new drilling permits?

Will the Obama administration allow Shell Oil to do to Arctic waters what BP did to the Gulf?

Appalachian activists are gaining ground in a campaign to ban mountaintop removal mining.

Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.

Sarah Palin played a key role in the Bush administration's effort to ditch the Endangered Species Act.

The Bush Administration has so politicized government agencies that an entire culture of civil service professionals is being replaced by
conservative political operatives loyal only to the White House.

An anti-Bush backlash is growing among ranchers, hunters and property owners.

"I see Native people dying every day because they can't afford health insurance," Elouise Cobell said over the phone in mid-January from Washington, DC, as she prepared to testify against Interi