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Salazar vowed to have 13 "commercial-scale" solar projects under construction by the end of 2010. He set a goal of producing a total of 100,000 megawatts of solar electricity.

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A plan mixing timber, recreation and renewable energy projects in the Seeley Lake area got a warm reception from a Missoula audience Thursday evening.

About 150 people packed a Missoula Public Library meeting room to hear details of the Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship Project. A panel of sawmill workers, wilderness advocates, outfitters and land owners agreed it was better to work for goals they all agreed on than to continue old grudges.

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In one of her earliest appearances before the Senate Natural Resources Committee, Gale Norton, President George W. Bush's first interior secretary, proclaimed in 2001 the need to "explore the entire smorgasbord of different options" when it came to domestic energy production.

But what was actually on the buffet was telling: Drilling off the coast of Florida, coal extraction in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah and exploring for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.