News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Originally Published by: Orlando Sentinel . By: U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt. In August, President Trump told Floridians that drilling off their coast was “not going to happen,” because “the people of Florida just don’t want it.” President Trump made that announcement official this ...
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 Connecticut that will be included in the final report - ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced an $83.7 million construction contract for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project to bring clean and reliable water to tribal and rural communities in northwestern New Mexico. As part of the Department of the Interior, the Bureau ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Todd Spaletto, President of The North Face, today announced a partnership to protect, preserve and celebrate public lands in support of the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today commended the members of the National Parks Second Century Commission for their report on the future of the National Park System, which includes a wide range of recommendations for enhancing all aspects of our national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich today announced that the Interior Department has issued guidance to oil and gas operators regarding corporate compliance statements and blowout ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell next week will travel to Idaho and Wyoming to see first-hand efforts to conserve the sagebrush habitat that supports wildlife, outdoor recreation and other economic activity throughout the West.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell joined members of Congress, California State and local elected officials, and community members across Northern California today in praising the President’s designation of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke applauded President Donald J. Trump's nomination of Tara Mac Lean Sweeney, a prominent Alaska Native leader and acclaimed businesswoman with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, to be the department’s next Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Trump Administration's effort to facilitate broadband development in rural America and Indian Country, the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior), in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, held a two-day National Tribal Broadband Summit on September 23 and 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Friday, August 5, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. and Executive Director of the National Book Foundation Lisa Lucas to read to elementary school students at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, a neighborhood national ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – After requesting states' input on the conservation of big game migration corridors, winter range, and research needs in eleven western states, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the Department will begin the next steps in the conservation of these important routes and areas. ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PLANO, TX – A customer management consulting company based in Plano “benched” an employee in violation of the federal H-1B visa program by hiring the nonimmigrant worker as a software developer then failing to use the worker and pay the wages promised, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- From facilitating energy development to managing America's public lands for tourism and outdoor recreation to assisting Indian tribes with education and economic growth, the activities of the Department of the Interior contributed $385 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 2 million jobs in 2011, according to a new report released today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SEATTLE, WA – On Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join senior officials from the Department of the Interior, members of Washington's congressional delegation and other local officials to tour the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and unveil ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Tomorrow, Feb. 17, 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Governor Christ Gregoire will hold a press conference to highlight the progress of the Department of the Interior's Recovery Act projects in Washington state.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - Taking the latest step in President Obama's efforts to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior today held a nearly 39 million-acre oil and gas lease sale for the Central Gulf of Mexico that drew $1,214,675,536 in high bids ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today marked the 35th anniversary of the highly successful Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program, which has helped preserve historic buildings across America while serving as an economic engine for local communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined New Mexico's congressional delegation to advance a vital water supply project that will provide clean, safe and reliable water to a quarter of a million people in the Navajo Nation, the City of Gallup and the Jicarilla Apache Nation. The action clears the way for resolving the Navajo Nation's long-standing water rights claims in the state.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced an $18.5 million donation to the National Park Foundation from businessman and philanthropist David M. Rubenstein to repair and restore the Lincoln Memorial and provide future visitors a view of the foundation pillars ...
