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	Gale Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gale Ann Norton (born March 11, 1954) is the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior, serving under President George W. Bush.
		Norton has been associated with a number of groups in the "wise use" or "free-market environmentalist" movement, such as the Political Economy Research Center, of which she is a fellow.
		In 2004, Norton was mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Senate in her home state of Colorado, after the incumbent, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, decided to retire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gale_Norton (517 words)

	Free Essay Gale Norton: Secretary of the Interior
		Gale Norton has a very lengthy environmental record, that proves she stands for keeping a healthy environment that is conscious about what needs to be done to progress our environment for the future.
		Gale Norton believes that the, “great wild places and unspoiled landscapes of this country are common heritage of all Americans.” Her major issues are to preserve sensitive lands, protect endangered species, and improve infrastructure to our national parks.
		Gale Norton holds strong on many of her issues but many disagree with what she truly stands for, those who oppose of her are calling her a hypocrite.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25633 (1743 words)

	Online NewsHour: Gale Norton
		Norton began her career at the Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative think tank that opposes the government's role in environmental protection.
		Norton, a Kansas native, moved to Colorado as a child and received her undergraduate and law degrees from Denver University.
		Norton's support for abortion rights may draw some fire from conservative members of Bush's party, although as Secretary of the Interior she would have little influence over social issues.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/inauguration/transition/norton.html (262 words)

	U.S. Department of the Interior - Secretary's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gale Norton, a lifelong conservationist, public servant and advocate for bringing common sense solutions to environmental policy, was sworn in as the 48th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior in January 2001.
		Prior to her election as Attorney General, Norton served in Washington, D.C. as Associate Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior, overseeing endangered species and public lands legal issues for the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
		Norton graduated magna cum laude from the University of Denver in 1975 and earned her law degree with honors from the same university in 1978.
	www.doi.gov /secretary/biography.html (462 words)

	deal-with-it.org \| the cards \| spades \| gale norton
		Gale Norton was appointed Secretary of the Interior after a long career demonstrating loyalty to industry's interests rather than those of the environment or American people, whenever they contradicted big money, as they usually did, on public lands and resource issues.
		Norton used the agency's statement that the migratory Porcupine do not concentrate most of their calving in the 1002 area in years of late snowmelt, because they can't reach it in time.
		Norton and her allies justified their decision by claiming that the new four stroke versions of snowmobiles would be quieter and cleaner than the old two stroke engines.
	www.deal-with-it.org /spades/norton.htm (2181 words)

	Sierra Club
		Gale Norton is an anti-environmental extremist whose record as a lobbyist for polluters, an attorney for loggers and miners, and a protege of James Watt makes her unfit to be Secretary of the Interior.
		Gale Norton favor allowing polluters to regulate themselves; as an attorney she sued the EPA to overturn clean-air standards; and, in the Reagan administration, she worked to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
		Norton is opposed to federal environmental protections and is in favor, of what she calls, "market-oriented, property rights-based, locally controlled solutions." (as reported by abcNEWS.com).
	www.commondreams.org /news2001/0109-13.htm (1250 words)

	AlterNet: Gale Norton vs. the Environment
		Norton is an ideological extremist who worked for two decades to dismantle the very laws the Interior Department is sworn to uphold.
		Norton is Madison Avenue smooth, appearing frequently for photos at scenic locales to declare her passion for conservation while working quietly at the same time to exploit our pristine wild places for her friends in industry.
		Norton was the oil industry's best friend in the most recent debate over drilling for oil in the fragile coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13661 (2781 words)

	Union Square Journal: Lynette Warren
		According to Boxer, Norton was too pro-business and too much of an advocate of states rights to be trusted with the stewardship of a half a billion acres of public land.
		Gale Norton was also criticized for her association with the US Libertarian Party.
		Gale Norton's brand of free-market environmentalism is likely to recognize that an innovative approach would not pit environmentalists against private enterprise.
	www.unionsquarejournal.com /warren_archive021501.htm (1164 words)

	Gale Norton - Bush candidate for the Secretary of the Interior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Norton's critics said the filing is consistent with articles she wrote for law journals supporting the concept that landowners should be compensated when government regulation "takes" the value of their property.
		Gale Norton submitted a brief supporting the states' right movement efforts to allow state taxation of any alienable lands held by a tribe, and not just those lands that were held as taxable by express intent of Congress.
		Gale Norton, President-elect George W. Bush's nominee for the position of Secretary of the Interior, worked for Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) as a staffer from 1988 until her election as the Attorney General of the State of Colorado.
	www.ienearth.org /gale_norton.html (10503 words)

	Gale Norton - Bush candidate for the Secretary of the Interior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Norton, 46, was the attorney general in Colorado when the Alamosa was sterilized with waste from the Summitville mine, and it was under her that many of the legal proceedings against the mine were initiated.
		Norton has described herself as "both a conservative and a conservationist," but her critics have complained that she is a conservative first and foremost.
		Gale Norton made her first public address as Secretary of Interior on Thursday and attempted to reassure her thousands of employees that rumored budget cuts won't affect the Department's ability to meet its goals.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/norton.html (8376 words)

	American President
		In the Reagan administration, Gale Norton served first in the Agriculture Department and then as associate solicitor at the Interior Department, where she continued to work to open protected lands to increased uses.
		Norton was elected attorney general of Colorado in 1991 and held that position until 1999.
		Following the expiration of her term as attorney general, Gale Norton became a lobbyist for NL (formerly National Lead) and joined the Board of Directors of the Independence Institute as a trustee.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/bushgeorgew/cabinet/interiorsecretary/nortongale/h_index.shtml (341 words)

	Gale A. Norton - SourceWatch
		Gale A. Norton (http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/norton-bio.html), the first woman to head the U.S. Department of the Interior, was sworn in January 2001.
		Norton was listed with the Colorado Legislature as a lobbyist for, among others, NL Industries, a Houston company formerly known as National Lead Company.
		In 1983 Norton moved to the right-leaning Hoover Institution, where she urged a market-based approach to controlling air pollution.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Gale_A._Norton (742 words)

	NPR : National Press Club -- Gale Norton, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
		Gale Norton is the first woman to head the 154-year-old Department of the Interior, which is responsible for the nation’s natural resources and a half-billion acres of public land.
		Prior to her eight years as Colorado attorney general, Norton worked at the Agriculture Department, and served as assistant solicitor for conservation and wildlife at the Interior Department, overseeing endangered species and public lands legal issues for the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
		Norton is a graduate of the University of Denver.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2003/030416.gnorton.html (418 words)

	village voice > news > Libertarian Belle by James Ridgeway
		A libertarian from the West, Norton has spent the last two decades railing against federal control of public lands and doing all she could to subject their water and energy resources to the bracing reality of the marketplace.
		Through a maze of waterworks, Norton would have at her fingertips the lifeblood of the Western desert: water from the Colorado to the Snake to the Columbia.
		Norton was trained for the role as interior secretary in the saber-rattling libertarian wing of the Republican Party.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0105/ridgeway.php (1756 words)

	ABC News: Profile: Secretary of Interior Gale Norton
		Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has agreed to stay in her post at the request of President Bush.
		Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has been asked by President Bush to stay on in her position for his second term in the White House.
		Norton is married to her second husband, John Hughes, and has no children.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/Inauguration/story?id=122150&... (620 words)

	Gale Norton Is No James Watt; She's Even Worse
		Norton began her career litigating on behalf of cattlemen, miners and oil companies at James Watt's Mountain States Legal Foundation.
		Norton's absolutist views on property rights and her hostility to environmental protections place her far outside the mainstream of even conservative legal scholarship on these issues.
		It is difficult to imagine Norton, with her antipathy to regulatory solutions and her advocacy of a "right to pollute," warming to this responsibility.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0109-07.htm (800 words)

	Stop Gale Norton
		Instead, Gale Norton is determined to undermine existing environmental laws and neglect sound science to help her friends in industry make more profits.
		Time and time again, Gale Norton has demonstrated that protecting habitat and wildlife for future generations of Americans is not part of her agenda as Interior Secretary.
		Gale Norton has brought dishonor to her position as protector of America's wild lands and wildlife, and again and again she has violated the public trust.
	www.stopnorton.org /petition.html (332 words)

	ABC News: Profile: Secretary of Interior Gale Norton
		While Gale Norton's nomination stirred controversy among environmentalists in 2001, since then the issues most synonymous with the Department of the Interior — such as public land issues — have taken a back seat to terrorism, the war in Iraq, and the economy.
		Norton, 46, was known for taking moderate positions as attorney general, though her legal requirement to defend the state's positions dropped her in the middle of one of the hottest social issues in America.
		Norton also said after her original nomination that she backed Bush's stated decision to open up parts of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/Inauguration/story?id=122150&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (620 words)

	Gale Norton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Norton’s environmental resume starts with a stint at the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative think tank.
		Norton, 46, is remembered as a moderate attorney general, though her legal requirement to defend the state’s positions dropped her in the middle of one of the hottest social issues in America.
		Norton is married to her second husband, John, and has no children.
	www.avhub.net /BushGaleNorton.htm (474 words)

	Bush Taps Watt Protege for Interior
		Norton, who served as attorney general for the state of Colorado for eight years, is a protégé of James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's highly controversial Interior Secretary.
		Norton, asked today if she would recommend such a move, said, "the West was concerned about those decisions in large part because there was no consultation with the people whose lives were most affected by land withdrawals by the Clinton administration.
		Norton worked to open the refuge during her previous tenure at the Interior Department, and the initiative was a central plank of Bush's campaign platform.
	www.mapcruzin.com /news/news123100a.htm (1840 words)

	George W. Bush's Cabinet: Interior Secretary Gale Norton
		Gale Norton’s confirmation as interior secretary, a position in charge of national parks and the nation’s public lands, was a huge disappointment to many environmentalists.
		The activists had played up Norton’s connections to non-environmentally friendly industries, pointing out that as a lawyer for Brownstein Hyatt and Farber, Norton had represented Delta Petroleum and lobbied for NL Industries, which was defending itself in lawsuits over children’s exposure to lead paint.
		Norton served as Colorado’s attorney general from 1991-1999, and ran for the U.S. Senate in 1996.
	www.opensecrets.org /bush/cabinet/cabinet.norton.asp (165 words)

	From Cradle to Cabal: The Secret Life of Gale Norton - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gale Norton, the Bush designate for Secretary of Interior, was Attorney General of Colorado from 1991 to 1999.
		When Gale Norton left the Attorney General's office, she was rewarded,given a partnership at the infamous Denver-based Brownstein Law Firm.
		Norton, who took office in January, has said she is determined to resolve a crisis that had been decades in the making.
	denverpost.ezboard.com /fdenverpostnewsfrm8.showMessage?topicID=103.topic (4327 words)

	Bush Names Former Colorado Atty. Gen. Gale Norton to Head Interior Dept. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Gale Norton has experience on many levels of government working to ensure that public lands are well maintained and that our environment remains clean for future generations," said President-elect Bush.
		During the Bush Administration, Norton was appointed to the Western Water Policy Commission, and she currently serves as Environment Committee Chair for the Republican National Lawyers Association.
		Norton said at her appointment announcement December 29, "The Department of the Interior faces the challenge of seeing that our land is used in an environmentally responsible way."
	www.usembassy.it /file2000_12/alia/a0122904.htm (512 words)

	Gale Norton - dKosopedia
		Gale Norton is the second Bush adminsitration's Secretary of the Interior.
		Gale Norton posed for a photograph with Jack Abramoff in her second encounter with the lobbyist in 2002.
		Abramoff lobbied Norton for his Native America tribal clients, arranging for them to donate heavily to a faux environmental group that Norton established.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php?title=Gale_Norton&printable=yes (151 words)

	Tribes eye Norton appointment with mixed emotions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Norton does not have a very positive environmental record and has received criticism for supporting President Bush’s proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.
		Norton has also been questioned about her association with the controversial former Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, and the organization he founded, the Mountain States Legal Foundation.
		Norton also advocated for the inclusion of Indian tribes in tobacco settlements; rather than have the states be the only beneficiary of settlements for those harmed by the tobacco industry.
	www.glifwc.org /pub/spring01/norton.htm (877 words)

	Gale Norton \| Outside Online
		Norton doesn't breathe fire in the style of onetime mentor James Watt—the Reagan-era Interior secretary who tu- tored her in the late seventies at Colorado's Mountain States Legal Foundation, an important center of antiregulatory lawsuits.
		Norton argued in favor of lifting a moratorium on offshore drilling in California, advocated for drilling in ANWR, and, in September 2004 alone, auctioned off nearly 360,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management country in southern Utah and made 8.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve available to oil and gas developers.
		As with most issues on Norton's agenda, the ORV changes stem from her belief that public lands should not be restricted to activities like hiking, hunting, and fishing but instead governed by policies that afford equal access to everyone.
	outside.away.com /outside/features/200505/counter-enviroment-power-list-4.html (524 words)

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