News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis today celebrated the establishment of America's 59th national park with President Obama's signature of legislation to elevate Pinnacles National Monument to become Pinnacles National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Indiana that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - Bridger Pipeline, LLC, a Wyoming corporation, has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit with the United States and the State of Montana with a $2 million payment to help recover natural resource damages from a pipeline break that spilled crude oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today unveiled the latest upgrade to the Financial and Business Management System (FBMS) and in doing so improved the U.S. Geological Survey's capabilities by replacing the outdated, legacy core financial and property system the Survey previously ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Sept. 3, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. She will be joined by Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe, Congressmen Rodney Frelinghuysen, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: FORT GARLAND, Colo. – Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced that noted conservationist Louis Bacon intends to donate a conservation easement totaling approximately 90,000 acres in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains bordering the San Luis Valley. This easement will provide the foundation for the proposed new Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area, which the Service is in the process of establishing.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – For the 14th consecutive year, the Interior Department has received a favorable audit opinion from KPMG LLP (KPMG), an independent certified public accounting firm and the Department's external auditor.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama Administration today released a report detailing key successes of President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO), including advancing local conservation priorities, expanding access to lands and waters for recreation, restoring critical landscapes, and creating great urban parks and water trails in American communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Lawrence Laws, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release for committing Hobbs Act robbery (robbery which interferes with interstate commerce) and using...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coordinated Obama Administration effort will allow for meaningful water deliveries to Klamath Project water users, despite ongoing drought conditions that have severely impacted all Klamath Basin parties. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced expected Klamath Project ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - After an extensive and transparent public process that spanned multiple years, the U.S. Department of the Interior today released final regulations to prevent or minimize impacts to surface water and groundwater from coal mining. The final rule updates 33-year old regulations and establishes ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor today announced a schedule through 2015 for the continued implementation of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Program) that identifies locations representing more than half of all the fractional interests and half of all owners across Indian Country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Georgia that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Wilma Lewis, a former U.S.Attorney for the District of Columbia and Inspector General at Interior, as Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.--Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey will serve as acting director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Today Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement related to the public lands provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, which designates nearly 250,000 acres of wilderness in five Western states, expands or designates nearly a dozen national park ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to creating nearly 80,000 jobs through developing 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct an environmental review ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In testimony before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes, and Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins today urged Congress to approve the recently proposed settlement of the long-running and highly contentious Cobell class-action lawsuit.
