News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today honored former Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole for his longtime support for veterans and instrumental role in establishing the World War II Memorial. In a ceremony on the national mall, Vice President Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, Secretary Salazar and a host of Dole's friends and family, dedicated a plaque in his honor that will be placed on the World War II Memorial.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Washington Post : Secretary Zinke’s monument review is praised by New England and Hawaii commercial fishing groups, along with New Mexico ranchers. “Fishing groups said they were encouraged by Zinke stating that his recommendations would “provide a much needed change for the local communities who ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of the Interior today released the results of an internal study that shows the department could generate up to one million megawatt hours of electricity annually and create jobs by adding hydropower capacity at 70 of its existing facilities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement today regarding the Trans Pacific Partnership:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar gave an enthusiastic address to a packed auditorium of employees on his second day at the Interior Department today, followed by what he expects will be the first of many listening sessions with employees.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Building on its commitment to ensuring strong protection from environmental and health hazards for all Americans, the Obama Administration today announced Federal agencies have agreed to develop environmental justice strategies to protect the health of people living in communities overburdened ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, the Interior Department today completed the nation's second competitive lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters, garnering $1,600,000 in high bids for 112,799 acres on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today officially unveiled the results of a six-month study by local community stakeholders on conservation efforts and the future of the Rio Grande that will help achieve increased river access and opportunities for outdoor recreation as part ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that Reclamation has selected 54 projects to receive a total of $26.5 million through WaterSMART water and energy efficiency grants. This funding will be leveraged to accomplish approximately $167 million in improvements throughout the West. The projects funded with these grants include canal lining and piping, automated gates and control systems, and installation of advanced metering.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is making available the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The environmental analysis considers a range of alternatives in order to meet energy leasing provisions contained in Section 20001 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-97), signed into law by President Trump on Dec. 22, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fl. – In one of her first trips as Secretary of the Interior, and as part of the Obama Administration's unprecedented commitment to the restoration of the Everglades, Sally Jewell today toured Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and Everglades National Park, pledging continued strong support for the restoration efforts that have picked up speed during the past four years under the Obama Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today applauded the designation of Fort Monroe in Virginia as a Site of Memory Associated to the Slave Route by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Located where the first enslaved Africans arrived in English North America in 1619, Fort Monroe is one of approximately 50 sites related to the history of the transatlantic slave trade to receive this designation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today designated the “Walkway Over the Hudson” project on the Hudson River in New York as a National Recreation Trail. The project, which has turned an historic railroad bridge into a scenic biking and pedestrian pathway, will now be part of a national network of scenic, historic, and recreation trails.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke applauded the initial construction of the Berwind Mine located on the border of West Virginia and Virginia. The developers, Ramaco Resources, expect the mine to initially create 50 good-paying jobs and employ roughly 200 coal miners when the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA – The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has awarded a $6 million grant to Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana through the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) for the East Grand Terre Island Restoration Project. These funds will be combined with an earlier grant of $21 million awarded through the CIAP to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for barrier island restoration at East Grand Terre.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper today announced the next step in the development of the nation's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke praised President Donald Trump’s intent to nominate veteran Bureau of Reclamation official Brenda W. Burman as the Commissioner of the Bureau, which is the largest wholesale water supplier in the United States and the nation’s second largest producer ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt praised President Donald J. Trump’s Proclamation declaring June as Great Outdoors Month for the third straight year. Great Outdoors Month reiterates the commitment that the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Trump Administration has made to expand access to the nation's public lands for all citizens. Secretary Bernhardt's statement is below:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today participated in a marsh restoration project at Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge as part of the annual National Public Lands Day. This year's event will involve more than 170,000 volunteers at 2,200 sites across the country helping to preserve and improve public lands, including neighborhood green spaces, city parks, beaches and national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
