Ken Salazar said...

It is painful to think we are having to do some of these things.

We can do as much as we can to minimize the risk, and we certainly have done that, I believe, in the Gulf of Mexico.

. . . we have seen that national security and environmental conservation are mutually supporting goals.

It is not often that we can end the 67-year controversy with the stroke of a pen, but that is exactly what we are doing.