Interior Secretary to Resign

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060310/...nterior_norton

By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
11 minutes ago

WASHNINGTON - Interior Secretary Gale Norton is resigning after five years in President Bush's Cabinet, The Associated Press has learned.

Norton, a former Colorado attorney general who guided the Bush administration's initiative to open Western government lands to more oil and gas drilling, planned to announce her decision Friday, a senior government official and another source familiar with her decision told the AP.

Both spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to upstage an announcement from the White House.