News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: SAN JUAN - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor visited the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico this week to highlight the Department's efforts to bolster coastal and climate resilience in the U.S. territories, and opportunities to tell a more complete story of America.

News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bakersfield Field Office plans to conduct pile burning operations of up to 250 piles of downed hazard trees, branches and understory brush in the Chimney Peak Extensive Recreation Management Area (ERMA) south of Kennedy Meadows in Tulare County. Pile burning operations will be focused near the Chimney Peak Fire Station, Chimney Creek Campground, and Long Valley Campground today through Friday between 8:00 am and 5:00 p.m.

The National Park Service is reminding the public to avoid handling Sonoran Desert toads because of the toxins they secrete.

News Release: WASHINGTON-- Next week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a public meeting in Clark County, Nevada, to hear from the community about management of the region’s public lands, including a proposal to designate existing public lands as a national monument in southern Nevada.

There were 336 press releases published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service in September.

There were 24 press releases or notices published by the Department of Interior in October.

The public is welcome to observe the Nov. 14 release of 50 mares and 12 studs at the Cedar Mountain Herd Management Area in Tooele County, Utah.

There were 14 notices published by the Interior Department in week ending Nov. 5, according to the Federal Register.

Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra raising concerns about the federal government’s use of taxpayer funds to promote radical gender ideology and the medical transition of children using pharmaceutical or surgical interventions.

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today is raising concerns about the Biden Administration’s aluminum tariff policies and their impact on American consumers in the midst of historic inflation. In a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Ranking Member Comer requests a briefing on the Department’s current assessment of aluminum tariffs, enforcement of exemptions, and inflation.

Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra requesting all documents and communications related to the Department’s creation of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE).

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are raising concerns over the Biden Administration’s unprecedented and deliberate attempt to obstruct the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) investigation into the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

As part of the investigation into the Biden family’s suspicious business dealings, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide information about a Biden family associate closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), JiaQi Bao.

Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) are pressing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about drug cartels exploiting President Biden’s border crisis to target American children by trafficking “rainbow fentanyl” into the United States.