When Barrack Obama was elected in 2008, and seated in 2009, he appointed Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI). This brought an end to eight years of the DOI being run at the convenience of the extraction industries.
Aside from the continuation of our dependence on fossil fuel, the “Macondo Deepwater Horizon” blowout was probably the worst fossil-fueled environmental disaster ever.
A whole raft of regulations were signed into law after a litany of environmental disasters pissed the public off to the point that we were done giving industry free license to destroy our living habitat.
April brings up a lot of events. While Spring has already sprung, it is through April that we can enjoy the warming of the weather and the extending of daylight further into our evening hours (at least above the equator).…