Interior's Proper Place: response to Tyler Priest

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Notes

¹ Herbert Solow, ‘Three-Way Payoff in Liberia’, Fortune, April 1953, 130, featured in Folder: Mining-Facts, Box 5, Mission to Liberia Central Files 1947–1956, Records of US Foreign Assistance Agencies, 1948–1961 (RG 469), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

² The US Geological Survey remains the authority for estimating the scope of cobalt, manganese, copper and nickel nodules. See Christina Lu, ‘Race to the Bottom: Deep Sea Mining is the Next Frontier’, Foreign Policy, 26 June 2022.

³ US District Court, County of Santa Barbara, a political subdivision of the State of California, and the City of Santa Barbara, a municipal corporation of the State of California, v. Walter J. Hickel, et al, Folder: Legal – Claims, Santa Barbara Channel Oil Spill, box 1, Office of the Solicitor, Records Relating to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1969–1975, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior (RG 48), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

⁴ EW Kentworthy, ‘Nixon to Propose Pollution Agency’, New York Times, 1 June 1970. Emphasis added. Cited on p. 180, footnote 121. Hickel called for renaming Interior the ‘Department of Environment’.