News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department will commit more than $89.8 million for a variety of restoration and improvement projects throughout Nevada and Lake Tahoe. The funding is a result of the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) which ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: REDDING, CA - Today Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visited the Northern California Geographic Area Coordination Center (North Ops) in Redding, California,where she met with members of the interagency fire leadership team and employees from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service will waive entrance fees on August 14 and 15 to encourage all Americans to visit our national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the District of Columbia. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $84.7 million in the District of Columbia as part of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DENVER, COLO. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper today met with representatives from the oil and gas industry, non-government organizations, and Colorado officials in a roundtable discussion regarding efforts to reduce methane emissions during the production, storage and transportation of oil and gas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PAICINES, CA – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined U.S. Representative Sam Farr, California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird, National Park Service Pacific West Regional Director Chris Lehnertz and other local officials to celebrate the elevation of Pinnacles National Monument to become Pinnacles National Park, joining iconic sites such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone as the country's 59th national park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to reverse the decades-long trend of increasing dependence on foreign imports of critical minerals that are essential to American prosperity and national security. Earlier this week, the Department of the Interior, led by the U.S. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CLEVELAND, OH- As part of President Obama's vision for an America built to last, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today visited two manufacturing facilities in Ohio that are helping to power the nation's growing energy economy. The plants, which employ American workers to manufacture products and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: JACKSON HOLE, WYO. – On Monday, June 13, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver keynote remarks at the annual summer meeting of the Western Governors' Association (WGA) in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Secretary Jewell’s remarks will focus on the value of public lands and areas of successful collaboration with Western Governors, including conservation goals, species conservation, building resilience, natural resource development and wildfire.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – To advance landscape-scale, science-based management of America's public lands and wildlife, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released a strategy to implement mitigation policies and practices at the Department that can more effectively encourage infrastructure development while protecting natural and cultural resources.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Wednesday, January 4, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will begin a two-day trip through Colorado, Texas and New Mexico to discuss jobs and economic benefits relating to tourism, energy, water, and conservation in rural communities in the Southwest.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – There is not enough evidence to meet the legal requirements for federal recognition of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs George T. Skibine said today. The Department of then Interior, therefore, has issued a final determination not to acknowledge the petitioner group as a federally-recognized Indian tribe.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced today the signing of Secretarial Order #3361, expanding the functions and responsibilities of the Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Doug Domenech to include the Office of International Affairs and the Ocean, Great Lakes, and Coastal ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA – Following President Obama’s remarks earlier today at the Annual Lake Tahoe Summit on climate and conservation challenges , Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The South Lawn. 12:05 P.M. EDT. THE PRESIDENT: Hi, Mike. Hi. David, hi. Please, thank you. Everyone is very far away from each other. That’s good. We’re learning, right? Hi, Kevin. That’s really nice. Well, this is great to be here. And we’re doing something I love doing: planting trees. I’ve always ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management launched several reforms to the onshore oil and gas leasing process in an effort to improve protections for land, water, and wildlife and reduce potential conflicts that can lead to costly and time-consuming protests and litigation of leases. In addition, Secretary Salazar issued a Secretarial Order creating a new Energy Reform Team.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that $34 million in grants has been approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, which will provide the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners the ability to help conserve or restore 177,000 acres of wetland and associated ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Washington, DC – At the invitation of the Alaska Federation of Natives, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will attend the organization's leadership meeting in Alaska next week.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor will address the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage where he will discuss the progress of Interior projects and programs affecting Alaska Natives, and how they are helping to strengthen rural economic development.
