News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: OAKES, NORTH DAKOTA – Today, U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary Kate MacGregor joined U.S. Senator John Hoeven and other officials to finalize the transfer of the Oakes Test Area to local ownership. This is the third water-related facility transferred under a law signed by President Trump ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke cheered President Trump’s memorandum on western water. The memorandum directs the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce to work together to deliver western communities the water supplies they need to irrigate millions of acres of farmland and provide water and power to millions of Americans.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that gray wolf populations in the Great Lakes region have recovered and no longer require the protection of the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a final rule in the Federal Register removing wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and in portions of adjoining states, from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to rescind the final rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption.” The final rule has been in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The Federal Register will publish the proposal on Nov. 9, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Saturday, August 11. * Travel to California. * Internal briefing with travel staff. Sunday, August 12 . * Live Interview with KCRA TV (Sacramento, CA). * Taped interview with KCRA TV (Sacramento, CA). * Driving Tour of Fire Damage (Western Area Power Administration Transmission Tower, Keswick Lake Estates, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's comprehensive plan to reduce carbon pollution, move our economy toward American-made clean energy sources and begin to slow the effects of climate change, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the approval of a major wind energy project ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell released the following statement today on the President's recent signing into law "National Park Service Centennial Act," H.R. 4680.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GLASGOW - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland hosted a virtual question-and-answer session today with Indigenous youth to discuss the impacts of climate change on the rising generation. During the “Elevating Indigenous Youth” event at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BALTIMORE, Md. – On Tuesday, June 2, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, White House Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson and local partners for a community service project and major announcement related to the Department's youth initiative, which aims to inspire millions of young adults to play, learn, serve and work on public lands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior formalized its partnership with the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy of the Kingdom of Norway to strengthen cooperation in offshore mineral, oil and gas, and wind energy activities. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Katharine MacGregor and Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Kåre R. Aas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) during a ceremony in Washington, DC.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and other senior Interior Department officials met with representatives from Western Oregon to discuss management of forests in the Pacific Northwest.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ANCHORAGE, Ak -- Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland will provide a preview of events planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at a kick-off event on August 14 at the Alaska Public Lands Information Center.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced that Interior will offer more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico in March lease sales.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new landmark study published today documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions from human sources across the globe, and in particular from Asia, make their way into the North Pacific Ocean and as a result contaminate tuna and other seafood. Because ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: United States Senate - Energy and Natural Resources Committee
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: OGDEN, UT – Tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will headline the fifth annual Intermountain Sustainability Summit at Weber State University.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Monday, March 3, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will hold a press conference call to release a new report detailing the economic impact of national parks, including the number of jobs supported in nearby local communities. The report will include detailed data on all 401 national parks across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES – Thanks to a two-year, $300,000 grant from American Express, Team Rubicon is launching a new effort to engage its veteran ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior today announced the start of the 2013 “Share the Experience” contest, giving amateur photographers the chance to join the ranks of Ansel Adams, Thomas Moran, and others who have found recognition for their photographs of the nation's public lands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SPOKANE, WA – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined leaders of the Spokane Tribe of Indians in Washington State to commemorate the tribe’s selection as a Promise Zone , which ...
