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Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 33

Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 33 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 290 Department of Energy U.S. Global Resources U.S. Department of Energy Global Resources Department of the Interior U.S. 291 After the end of the Cold War in 1990 the Department of Energy deemphasized production of new nuclear weapons and shifted some support to theoretical research particle acceleration experiments at the Department of Energy s Fermi National Accelerator Laborator y SLAC National Accelerator Laborator y and other national laboratories. During the Bill Clinton administration the Department of Energy proposed numerous regulations for disposal of hazardous wastes such as plutonium . Under the free market ideology of President George W. Bush the Department of Energy promoted extraction of oil and nonrenewable energy resources from federal lands in the West and in Alaska. Howard Hiojmbeig Web Site U.S. Department of Energy http www.energy.gov See also American Mining Congress American Petroleum Institute Atomic Energy Acts Atomic Energy Commission Biofuels Biotechnology Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Department of Transportation U.S. Energy economics Energy politics Energy storage Gasoline and other petroleum fuels Manufacturing energy use in Nuclear Energy Institute Oil embargo and energy crises of 1973 and 1979 Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Solar energy. Department of the Interior U.S. Category Organizations agencies and programs Date Established 1849 The U.S. Department of the Interior is the federal agency entrusted with conserving much of the nation s natural resources. These resources include federal forests and grazing land national parks water and irrigation oil gas and coal American Indian lands and fish and wildlife. Background The Department of the Interior is part of the executive branch of the U.S. government. The secretary of the interior is a member of the president s cabinet confirmed by the Senate. The three original executive .