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Former Interior secretaries Bernhardt, Norton back Joe O’Dea in Republican US Senate primary
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Two Colorado Republicans who served as secretary of the Interior on Saturday endorsed Joe O’Dea in the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet. Gale Norton, a former state attorney general, and David Bernhardt, an energy and natural resources attorney, called the wealthy construction company owner’s focus on American energy…
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Democrats seek criminal charges against Coloradan who headed Interior for Trump
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats on the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to investigate whether the Coloradan who served as secretary of the interior in the Trump administration engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial permit for a housing project. The criminal referral says David…
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Interview: Interior secretary nominee from Colorado says he will balance energy, environment
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WASHINGTON – The former oil industry lobbyist now in charge of the Interior Department says he’s prepared to balance the interests of environmentalists against an administration that has put a priority on opening public lands to energy development. David Bernhardt, a Colorado native and formerly with Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, has represented…
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Interior Secretary Zinke cites Colorado’s advantages in BLM move
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke gripped two hiking poles, citing a gimpy knee from his years as a Navy SEAL and a college football lineman, as he wandered deeper into Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday. “There’s no reason a trail can’t begin on Forest Service property and go into…
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Interior’s No. 2 man sees Washington from a Colorado point of view
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Growing up in Rifle on the Western Slope, David Bernhardt saw Colorado’s great outdoors from both sides of the economic equation. This upbringing would shape his way of thinking as the second-in-command for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Rifle of his boyhood in the early 1980s – from the rugged Flat Tops Wilderness…
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COVER STORY | Grand Junction shines as D.C. eyes new home for BLM
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Last month, after French President Emmanuel Macron addressed a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado quickly caught up to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on the House floor. Gardner had Colorado business to discuss with his old friend, the former senator from Montana who now leads the U.S. Department of the Interior, which administers…
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Colorado native son wins Cory Gardner’s praise, and vote, for Interior post
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When Colorado native and Washington insider David Bernhardt sat for his confirmation hearing last month following his selection by the Trump administration as deputy secretary of the interior, he inevitably drew cheers and jeers. The former from Republicans and energy industry advocates fresh from battling the Obama administration’s eight-year crackdown on fossil fuels; the latter, from Democrats and environmentalists…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner touts pick for No. 2 at Interior whom greens fear and loathe
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Call it a tale of two sound bites. Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s office sent a press release to the news media this afternoon announcing the junior senator’s scheduled introduction Thursday of Coloradan David Bernhardt at his confirmation hearing for deputy secretary of the interior. It’s a formality and a show of same-state pride and support for…
