"It's just a different shade of green than he saw as interior secretary."
Many of these efforts took shape under Gale Norton when she was interior secretary.
Following is the list of the interior secretaries to date.
As interior secretary, what is your position on the action by the Clinton administration to fence off vast acreage of Western land?
It will be interesting to see what kind of interior secretary Gale Norton turns out to be.
But the days when interior secretaries aggressively pushed Congress to add to the federal domain are clearly over.
"America deserves an interior secretary who will protect our air, water and natural resources not the polluters who seek to exploit them," the advertisement said.
American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage.
As interior secretary, Ms. Norton should be concentrating on protecting our natural resources, not giving them away to large oil and logging companies.
As interior secretary, Ms. Norton would have broad discretion over thousands of mines on public land.