News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today thanked President Trump and commended the U.S. Congress for including authorization for the Palau Compact Review Agreement in the FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. Signed into law yesterday by the President, the enactment officially authorizes the strategic agreement signed between the United States and Palau governments in 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, June 27, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will hold a news media conference call with reporters to discuss President Obama's establishment of the White House Council on Native American Affairs. Members of the media may participate in the call by dialing 1-888-810-6756 and providing the access code INTERIOR.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has appointed 13 professionals to serve as members of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), which provides recommendations on federal geospatial policy and management issues and advice on development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In keeping with President Obama's strategy to expand domestic oil and gas production safely and responsibly, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released an interagency approach to address air quality issues associated with onshore oil and gas development on public lands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today named Abigail Ross Hopper as the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages the development of our nation's conventional and renewable energy and marine mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, November 8, 2013, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will visit Point Arena Stornetta Public Lands to hear directly from the community about their vision for the protection of the significant and scenic area along Northern California's Mendocino coastline. Jewell will ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Thank you, Margaret, for that kind introduction and for your leadership.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose to list the Burmese python and eight other large constrictor snakes that threaten the Everglades and other sensitive ecosystems as “injurious wildlife” under the Lacey Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, chaired by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, approved $21.9 million in grants for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to conserve, enhance or restore more than 92,000 acres of lands for waterfowl, shorebirds, and other birds in 16 states.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following President Obama's historic visit to Indian Country last week where he underscored his commitment to work with tribal leaders to build strong, resilient economies, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the Department is proposing a set of common sense ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, President Donald J. Trump traveled to North Dakota to deliver a speech on the need for tax reform and its impact on the American energy sector. The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees all energy production on federal lands and the entire Outer Continental Shelf, which collectively includes oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, geothermal, hydro-power, and more.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) Cooperative Recovery Initiative (CRI) more than $3.74 million is being committed to nine projects across 12 states to help recover some of the nation’s most at-risk species on or near national wildlife refuges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SEATTLE, WA – On Monday, Aug. 26, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver keynote remarks at a naturalization ceremony for approximately 20 candidates for citizenship hosted at the Refugee Women's Alliance in Seattle. Secretary Jewell, who immigrated to the United States with her parents from England as a young girl, will also help to present certificates of citizenship to the candidates, some of whom entered the U.S. as refugees.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Departments of Interior, Agriculture and Defense joined with state and federal partners today to announce the designation of three new Sentinel Landscapes to benefit working lands, wildlife conservation and military readiness. Through the Sentinel Landscapes partnership, the DOI, USDA ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced nearly $650,000 in grants to conserve and protect 30 critically endangered species in 15 countries around the world ranging from the Siamese crocodile in Asia to the Siberian crane in Russia to the Ethiopian wolf in Africa.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Highlighting a 25-year conservation effort involving a number of federal agencies, the Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife today announced the Maguire daisy will be removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: PAICINES, CA – On Monday, Feb. 11, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join U.S. Representative Sam Farr, California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird, National Park Service (NPS) Pacific West Regional Director Chris Lehnertz and other local officials to celebrate the establishment ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WINSLOW, Ariz. – As part of President Obama’s Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) initiative to remove barriers to Native youth’s success and the ConnectED program to provide more ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU, HAWAI’I – As part of the World Conservation Congress this week where thousands of conservation community leaders and activists are gathering to shape the next four years of global sustainable development, environmental and species protection, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEM) today announced in a report to Congress that the agency is successfully completing the orderly close-out of the Royalty in Kind (RIK) Program, which accepted oil and gas in lieu of cash as royalty payments on federal energy resources. The program officially ends on Sept. 30, 2010 when the remaining contracts expire.
