News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined a bipartisan group of Senators on Capitol Hill to celebrate recent additions to the National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) System. The Flint Hills Legacy Conservation Area of Kansas, the Dakota Grassland Conservation Area of South Dakota and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC. – More than 400 members of federally recognized tribes gathered today at the Department of the Interior at a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by President Barack Obama, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Cabinet Members. Secretary Salazar's opening remarks at the conference, as prepared for delivery, are below:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded the announcement by President Obama that he intends to nominate Hilary Tompkins as the Interior Department's solicitor.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's commitment to honoring a nation-to-nation relationship with Indian Country, four cabinet-level departments today joined the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in releasing an action plan to strengthen the protection of Indian sacred sites and provide greater ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MILFORD, Del. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined Delaware Governor Jack Markell, Senator Tom Carper and other state and local leaders to launch the Delaware Bay Initiative, a partnership with the state, tribes, local communities and other stakeholders to boost conservation, outdoor recreation and tourism on Delaware's “Wild Side.”
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for West Virginia. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $10.9 million in West Virginia as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke directed all Department of the Interior bureaus, superintendents, and land managers at all levels to adopt more aggressive practices, using the full authority of the Department, to prevent and combat the spread of catastrophic wildfires through robust fuels reduction and pre-suppression techniques.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a new emergency temporary standard to protect more than 84 million workers from the spread of the coronavirus on the job. The nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell issued the following statement on the release of the final Clean Power Plan, a key step in the Obama Administration’s fight against climate change:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Due to the current lapse of federal appropriations:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today presented a Partners in Conservation Award to the Casting Light upon the Waters committee for their work in protecting fishery resources and reducing user conflicts in Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As the nation honors International Transgender Day of Visibility, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland released the following statement:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today celebrated the release of the first images from Landsat 9, a joint satellite mission from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The satellite, which was successfully launched on Sept. 27, will provide major improvements to our Earth observation capabilities and will ensure the continuation of the 50-year Landsat data record of Earth observations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is the recipient of the first Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award in recognition of OSM's Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell applauded President Obama's action today to establish the Pullman National Monument in Chicago, Illinois. The monument will protect and interpret America's first planned industrial town and a site associated with important milestones in the labor and civil rights movements.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump today announced the nomination of Department of the Interior veteran David Bernhardt as the Interior’s Deputy Secretary.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior today announced an updated and strengthened policy to ensure that all Interior employees and contractors uphold the principles of scientific integrity and that the Department thoroughly reviews alleged breaches of the policy while protecting workers.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Interior's wide range of recreational, conservation, energy, land and water management programs and activities supported more than 2 million American jobs and contributed about $363 billion to the Nation's economic activity in fiscal year 2010, according to a departmental report using standard input-output economic modeling techniques.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for New Hampshire. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $779,000 in New Hampshire as part of the recovery plan signed by ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Five Cabinet Secretaries and senior officials from a wide range of Federal agencies and offices participated in the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, illustrating the Obama Administration's commitment to ensuring all Americans have strong Federal protection from environmental and health hazards.
