News from November 2021
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas telemarketing enterprise that shortchanged more than 1,328 call center workers has been ordered to pay more than $1.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages by a federal court in San Francisco. The judgement follows a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found Wellfleet ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Biden-Harris administration today announced the formation of an Interagency Working Group to address worsening drought conditions in the West and support farmers, Tribes, and communities impacted by ongoing water shortages. The Working Group will be co-chaired by the Departments of the ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, TX – A Lufkin contractor’s failure to assemble a crane boom properly caused the crane to collapse onto a passing vehicle on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, killing the two occupants in April 2021. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced the nomination of Dr. Timothy R. Petty to be the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke cheered the nomination. The Assistant Secretary for Water and Science is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor today announced the Department has tapped business leader Jeffrey D. Klein to lead the Natural Resource Investment Center (The Center) as its first executive director. Klein is charged with fostering partnerships with the private sector ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Statement from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke after the Navajo Nation Council has ratified a new lease with the Salt River Project to provide for continued operations of the Navajo Generating Station through 2019:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior has taken the first step for leasing a wind energy project on the Outer Continental Shelf under the framework established by the Obama Administration, issuing the nation's initial Request for Interest for renewable energy development off the coast of Delaware, the First State.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced the selection of Bryan Rice, a veteran federal administrator and citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, as the new Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the federal agency that coordinates government-to-government relations with 567 federally recognized tribes in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to improving the safety and environmental sustainability of offshore energy development, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Energy have entered into a cooperative agreement with Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to support the ongoing operation and maintenance of the Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Building on the success of the Obama Administration in implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in new and innovative ways, today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (the Services) announced an additional suite of actions the Administration ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Bernard J. Mazer has been selected to serve as the Department of the Interior's Chief Information Officer, effective June 7, 2010. Before joining the Department, he served as the Chief Information Officer for one of its agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he aligned regulatory and information technology infrastructure to support strategic wildlife habitat and conservation initiatives.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Lawrence S. Roberts, who leads the Office of the Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs, today announced new leadership for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Weldon ‘Bruce’ Loudermilk will succeed Michael S. Black as Director of the BIA and Tony Dearman will be the new Director of the BIE.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DOHA, Qatar – Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks for the Department of the Interior and head of the U.S. delegation for the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), expressed disappointment over the decision by the Parties ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, President Donald J. Trump signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law, which will significantly help address the historically underfunded, multi-billion-dollar deferred maintenance backlog at our national parks and public lands. In celebration of this historic achievement, U.S. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama's announcement that he intends to nominate Dr. Marcia McNutt as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Science Advisor to the Secretary. She would be the first woman director of the agency since its establishment in 1879. The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Jan. 10, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will sign a memorandum formally establishing the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park (NHP) in Auburn, New York as a unit of the National Park System. National Park Service Acting Director Michael T. Reynolds, U.S. Senators ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: By Jodi Gillette, Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs, White House Domestic Policy Council
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Aurelia Skipwith as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with a bipartisan vote of 52-39. Skipwith has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior since April 19, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – With the help of community input, the National Park Service has completed a long-term vision for restoring the beauty and ensuring the sustainability of America's front yard, the National Mall. The National Park Service announced the availability of the Final National Mall Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement (FMNP/FEIS) through a notice in the Federal Register on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In response to a request from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the U.S. Geological Survey today released the ‘science gap and sufficiency' report evaluating science needed to better inform decisions regarding oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off Alaska.
