The Nation - News from Jan. 4, 1985
Despite a plank in the Republican platform calling for abolition of the Energy Department, the Reagan Administration is not renewing a once-failed attempt to combine it with another agency, officials said. Reports that White House officials were taking a fresh look at combining the Interior and Energy departments into a new Department of Natural Resources after Interior Secretary William P. Clark’s surprise decision to resign were dismissed as “speculation” by Deputy Energy Secretary Danny Boggs.
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