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  Bruce Babbitt Summary
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born 1938) was governor of Arizona (1978-1987), a presidential candidate (1988), and appointed secretary of the interior (1993) in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton.
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona.
In 1979, Babbitt was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve as a Commissioner on the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, a six month investigation of the March, 1979 accident at a commercial nuclear power plant at Middletown, Pennsylvania.
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 Bruce Babbitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona.
Babbitt served as governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987.
Babbitt's brother, Paul Babbitt, was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Babbitt   (641 words)

  
 Island Press - Solutions that inspire change | Cities In The Wilderness
Bruce Babbitt served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001, as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as Attorney General of Arizona from 1975 to 1978.
Babbitt is the son of a northern Arizona ranching family and was exposed to Arizona’s cultural and natural heritage from an early age.
In 1988, Babbitt was a candidate for the presidency of the United States and from 1988-1993 he practiced law and served as head of the League of Conservation Voters.
www.islandpress.org /babbitt   (545 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt-The 2000 National Level Award
Babbitt stepped down as governor in early 1987 and after a run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988, practiced law and served as head of the League of Conservation Voters before President Clinton named him the forty-seventh Secretary of the Interior in 1993.
Babbitt was personally involved in demonstrating catch and release programs for endangered trout and salmon to highlight how restoring native fish habitats restores economies.
Babbitt observed, “There was no question that Everglades restoration was the most important legislative accomplishment for the environment during the Clinton administration.” He transformed Florida’s “river of grass” in eight years from a nightmare of failed policies, polarization and litigation into the largest environmental restoration project in history.
www.rpts.tamu.edu /pugsley/Babbitt.htm   (2317 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt, Alone in the Wilderness | Outside Online
Babbitt was brought up to be the sort of person who would worry for years because a clerk had let him take a soda pop when he was a nickel short and he had somehow neglected to repay the debt.
Babbitt is as capable as the next person of ladling out Boy Scout pieties about public service and team play, but what seems to fascinate him about public life is the chance to compete in the game, his discomfort on stage notwithstanding.
Babbitt is also proud of his landmark compromises: the forest plan in the Pacific Northwest, the deal between the Park Service and Florida's sugar industry to clean up the Everglades, and endangered-species negotiations like the one between Georgia Pacific and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve the habitat of the red cockaded woodpecker.
outside.away.com /magazine/1094/9410fbab.html   (8023 words)

  
 Bah, Bah, Bruce
Bruce Babbitt, so the story goes, had meant to sleep in that Saturday morning and was irritated when the phone rang with the call telling him he was the first Babbitt, at last, to be governor of Arizona.
Bruce Babbitt had worried to reporters at the start of his tenure in Interior that he might "become a prisoner of my resume." His ambition still reached beyond the traditionally western niche of public lands policy.
Bruce himself had no direct part of it, but at the height of his family’s empire in Arizona, they used to joke that even the sheep said "Baa-bbitt." With all the political heat on her and on the Clinton administration, Janet Reno needed a lamb to sacrifice.
rangemagazine.com /archives/stories/spring98/stories_bah_bah_bruce.htm   (4581 words)

  
 Babbitt's retreat - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt - includes related article on Babbitt's environmental record ...
The Babbitt family, which had come to Arizona in 1886 and made a fortune in cattle and trading posts, was being described as the Kennedy dynasty of the West.
In November 1992, before Babbitt had accepted his appointment by President-elect Bill Clinton, he declared the Interior Department "a mess." The agency's 500 million acres of public land, mostly in the West and Alaska, were suffering from 12 years of neglect under Republican rule.
Babbitt was free to be candid at the time, because although he anticipated a high post in the Clinton administration, he had no interest in cleaning up Interior's Augean stables.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1525/is_n4_v79/ai_15518168   (979 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Key Stories on Bruce Babbitt Probe
Portraying himself as an ardent supporter of Native Americans, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt told a federal judge that he is committed to overhauling a problem-ridden trust fund system maintained on their behalf.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said he was "out of the loop" on a decision by his subordinates to turn down a controversial Indian casino license, so there is no basis for an outside prosecutor to investigate him further.
The investigation of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's handling of an Indian casino license appears likely to result in the appointment of an independent counsel because of difficulties in establishing the truthfulness of his sworn statements to Congress, senior Justice Department officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/counsels/babbitt.htm   (560 words)

  
 Communicator - Bruce Babbitt
During his tenure as Interior Secretary, Babbitt drafted plans to restore the Florida Everglades; helped enact the massive California Desert Protection Act; and negotiated the largest land swap in the history of the lower 48 states in order to protect the new Grand-Staircase monument and other parks in Utah.
In all, Babbitt provided recommendations to President Clinton that led to the creation of 21 new monuments protected under the Antiquities Act and resulting in several million acres of resources on federal land coming under new conservation management, including at least two monuments along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Beginning in the south, Babbitt lauded the protection of the San Jacinto Mountains in the form of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.
www.pcta.org /help/join/magazines/Babbitt.asp   (750 words)

  
 Environment & Climate News: Unfond memories of Bruce Babbitt (April 2001)
Bruce Babbitt, appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Clinton in January 1993, was a strong advocate of the Global Biodiversity Treaty, centerpiece of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
Babbitt's attempt to establish an ecological empire was sidetracked in October 1993 by the House of Representatives.
Babbitt answered: "To some degree, an ecosystem is in the eye of the beholder." He later elaborated: "An ecosystem might be a watershed, a river basin, an estuary, a forest--it could be a unit of desert.
www.heartland.org /archives/environment/apr01/babbitt.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Save the Peaks Coalition!
Today, Bruce Babbitt stands in the courtroom, with all of his political clout, arguing for the dismissal of their cultural and religious claims.
Babbitt ignored reports by the US Geological Survey (issued from within the Department of the Interior during Babbitt's tenure), suggesting that the Yucca Mountain repository would sit over a major earthquake fault and that it may pose a risk to one of Nevada's largest aquifers.
Babbitt had 8 years in office to sort out the mess, but the federal judge responsible for the case grew so irritated with his department's inaction, intransigence and outright deception, that Babbitt along with two other officials were found to be in contempt of court.
www.savethepeaks.org /babbittwatch   (1267 words)

  
 Interview with Bruce Babbitt : Terrain.org
Bruce Babbitt served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001, as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as Attorney General of Arizona from 1975 to 1978.
In 1988, Babbitt was a candidate for the presidency of the United States and from 1988-1993 he practiced law and served as head of the League of Conservation Voters.
Bruce Babbitt: Political opposition from the “property rights” groups who oppose planning and most zoning, arguing that individuals have near absolute rights to use their property as they please, irrespective of the impact on public values such as endangered species, rivers, and overall quality of life in a given community.
www.terrain.org /interview/18   (2405 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt, Former Interior Secretary, To Speak At CU-Boulder April 20 | News Center | University of Colorado at ...
Bruce Babbitt, the former Arizona governor who served as secretary of the interior for eight years under President Clinton, will speak at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 20.
Babbitt was secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2000 and governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987.
Babbitt was instrumental in working with The Nature Conservancy to initiate negotiations with the owners of the Baca Ranch in Colorado's San Luis Valley, which will soon become the nation's next national park and wildlife refuge.
www.colorado.edu /news/releases/2004/112.html   (471 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt: The Man Without Shame
Babbitt defended his about-face by saying that he needs to make money to pay off his legal bills stemming from an independent counsel investigation into whether or not he committed perjury when he said did not try to shake down Indian tribes for campaign contributions.
Babbitt defends the use of certificates of compliance to maximize the value of the land.
Is there a better argument than Babbitt for the Naderites' case that on the practical level the two parties are one, and the despoliation continues whether Babbitt or Gale Norton run Interior or which one of them spins through the revolving door and go to work for a firm like Latham and Watkins.
www.counterpunch.org /babbitt2.html   (722 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Bruce Babbitt, cheap crook
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt slipped off the hook on one political corruption charge last week, but it is increasingly apparent to anyone who bothers to scratch the surface of mounting evidence against him on other fronts that the Cabinet official is just another of the Clinton administration's many sleazy, cheap crooks.
Prosecutor Carol Elder Bruce was investigating allegations that Babbitt lied to Congress in his explanation as to why the Interior Department in 1995 rejected a permit for a proposed casino by three Wisconsin Indian tribes.
Babbitt is one of those politicians who portrays himself as being totally motivated by compassion for his fellow man. Yet he is actually a Clintonesque wheeler-dealer who lies, cheats and steals to get what he wants, then uses his government power and taxpayer resources to cover his tracks.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14834   (747 words)

  
 Fred Thompson v. Bruce Babbitt: Smoke Signals in Wisconsin
At legal issue in the case is whether Babbitt's decision to deny three Indian tribes' casino application was influenced by political contributions, and whether he was truthful when he denied having conversations with political operatives on the issue.
Babbitt is covered under the independent counsel law because he is a cabinet secretary.
Babbitt rejected the project in July 1995, even though the regional office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs recommended approval.
www.americanpolitics.com /103197ThompBabbitt.html   (1008 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt Elected Chairman of World Wildlife Fund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Babbitt served as secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001, as governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as attorney general of Arizona from 1975 to 1978.
Appointed secretary of the interior by President Clinton in 1993, Babbitt served for eight years, during which he led in the creation of the forest plan in the Pacific Northwest, restoration of the Florida Everglades, passage of the California Desert Protection Act, and legislation for the National Wildlife Refuge system.
Babbitt is perhaps best remembered by American school children as the secretary of the interior who brought the wolves back to Yellowstone.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=74521   (687 words)

  
 Dossier - Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt, President Clinton's Secretary of the Interior, is a former attorney general and former governor of the State of Arizona.
Babbitt became governor after one Governor resigned and his replacement died, leaving Babbitt the next in line for the post.
For example, George Frampton, Babbitt's choice for Assistant Secretary of Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks was a former president of the Wilderness Society.
www.nationalcenter.org /dos32babbitt.html   (888 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt becomes 'wild and scenic' developer - by John Fulton Lewis - The Heartland Institute
First, Babbitt is to help overcome environmental activist lawsuits and other roadblocks, erected since 1992, to the construction of 3,050 homes on property in rural Ventura County, known as the Ahmanson Ranch.
Last year, Babbitt was instrumental in persuading President Clinton to declare hundreds of miles of the California coast as a National Monument, and thus largely off-limits to private development.
Meanwhile, Babbitt's friends in the major environmental organizations are in some confusion as to how to deal with the Interior Secretary who so recently represented a hard line on their behalf.
www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=961   (652 words)

  
 Babbitt Bruce - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Babbitt, Bruce (1938- ), American politician and environmentalist, United States Secretary of the Interior under President Bill Clinton...
Bruce, Scottish family, originally named de Bruce, descended from Robert de Brusse (?-1094).
Bruce, James (1730-1794), British explorer, the first to follow the course of the Blue Nile to its confluence with the White Nile.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Babbitt_Bruce.html   (112 words)

  
 BRUCE BABBITT JOINS CADIZ TO BUILD INTERNATIONAL SUBSIDIARY
Babbitt served as Secretary of the Interior of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Babbitt served as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as Arizona’s Attorney General from 1975 to 1978.
Babbitt negotiated and implemented the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980, legislation that remains the national model for management of underground water resources.
www.propertyrightsresearch.org /bruce_babbitt_joins_cadiz_to_bui.htm   (740 words)

  
 Bruce Babbitt
Babbitt leads the Department of the Interior from his office (though he is not there very much) and he also helps influence and carry out the President's environmental policies.
Babbitt is an ordinary man, besides the fact that he is in the hierarchy of American Government.
Babbitt also served as national president of the League of Conservation Voters, which is a non-profit organization that deals with environmental legislation and rates the environmental record of members of the United States Congress.
www.valdosta.edu /~tmanning/hon399/javon.htm   (1091 words)

  
 Nature and Politics (July 11, 2001)
Babbitt made clear within days of his hiring as a chief counsel in the firm's Environmental Litigation shop that he is quite comfortable with Latham and Watkins' work on behalf of corporations on issues ranging from Agent Orange to trichloroethylene.
Babbitt ignored Clinton-era reports by the US Geological Survey, a wing of the Department of the Interior, suggesting that the Yucca Mountain repository would sit over a major earthquake fault and that it may pose a risk to one of Nevada's largest aquifers.
But Babbitt has long been a proponent of nuclear energy as a "green fuel" and has argued that increased federal subsidies should be directed toward the nuclear industry in the name of countering global warming.
www.eatthestate.org /05-22/NaturePolitics.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America: Books: Bruce E. Babbitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Babbitt served as secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001, which put him at the helm during the infamous spotted owl controversy.
Babbitt shares his unique and invaluable experience and perspective in lively and illuminating assessments of such environmental successes as the Everglades Forever Act, nature preserves, restored tallgrass prairies, and dismantled dams.
As a key architect of many environmental success stories, Babbitt reveals how broad restoration projects have thrived through federal- state partnership and how their principles can be extended to other parts of the country.
www.amazon.ca /Cities-Wilderness-Vision-Land-America/dp/1559630930   (683 words)

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