News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today held Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 229, which offered over 20 millions acres ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued the following statement on the announcement that the Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's oldest newspaper, will cease publishing later this week.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. government and the District of Columbia today announced that the Washington Gas Light Company has agreed to begin clean up of a polluted area along the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington formerly managed by the National Park Service and owned by the United States, and now owned ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –The activities of the Department of the Interior contributed $371 billion to the U.S. economy in 2012, supporting 2.3 million jobs in activities including outdoor recreation and tourism, energy development, grazing and timber harvest, according to a new report released today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced next steps in the implementation of the Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans Land Allotment Program. While the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reviews the previous Administration’s broad Public Lands Orders (PLOs), the bureau will expedite and process veterans’ allotment applications across the area addressed by those orders.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - At the direction of the President, Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco will return to the Gulf region next week as they continue their work, aggressively responding to the BP oil spill.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Originally Published by: Duluth News Tribune
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PATTEN, ME - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke wrapped-up day two of a four-day visit across four Northeastern states with a listening tour at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. President Trump's Executive Order 13792, issued April 26, 2017, placed this monument under review.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Bureau of Land Management to Evaluate Aggregate Mine Proposal in Fremont County.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: The Biden-Harris Administration has set an ambitious goal of connecting all Americans to reliable, affordable, high-speed internet. The historic passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) will help us reach that goal. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal allocates ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, June 3, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Rowan Gould will join more than 200 students to kick off National Fishing and Boating Week with recreational and educational activities along the Anacostia River. Bass Pro Shops ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: PAGE, Ariz– On Monday, Nov. 11, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science Anne Castle will join other officials to initiate a high-flow experimental release from Glen Canyon Dam-the second release under the science-based protocol adopted in May 2012 for more frequent high-flow experimental releases on the Colorado River.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Salt Lake City, UT – Secretary Salazar, Governor Herbert and other senior administration officials will participate in a listening session on President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Initiative to hear from people in Utah about solutions for building a 21st century conservation and recreation agenda and reconnecting Americans with the outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has approved, with conditions, Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.'s Exploration Plan to drill three exploratory, information-gathering wells in the Chukchi Sea.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt released the following statement on Bureau of Land Management Realignment:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Interior Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor announced today that the Department of the Interior has signed agreements with the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation in California, Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho, and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota to conduct the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program) in their communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior today welcomed a $25,000 donation from Backwoods, an outdoor retailer and a contributing family foundation, in support of the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC) , an ongoing national effort to engage the next generation of outdoor stewards by training and employing thousands of America’s young people and veterans to protect, restore, and enhance our nation’s public lands and waters.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised the Senate's confirmation of Dr. Marcia McNutt as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Science Advisor to the Secretary. The President nominated her for the positions in July.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today the results of a National Park Service review to expand the use of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program, promoting the rehabilitation of historic buildings, especially in urban and economically depressed areas, as a way both to preserve the past and to create jobs and promote economic revitalization in the present.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: On Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by the most violent earthquake in a century. The earthquake caused massive damage inside and around the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
