Dirk Kempthorne: “I think on this nuclear issue in the future, nuclear waste, et cetera, there ought to be an opportunity for these…”

Senator, yes, because we must have greater transparency; we must have greater communication.

As chairman of the Drinking Water Fisheries and Wildlife Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee, I am concerned that the National Marine Fisheries Service's guidelines on essential fish habitat have exceeded the scope…

They are, as Wallace Stegner famously said, America's best idea.

I recently created the Department of the Interior Task Force to study climate change, because of its possible effects on our ability to be good stewards of wildlife, national parks and other landscapes, as well as our responsibility to…