News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services today held the first meeting of a White House task force to address the incidence of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. The task force, co-chaired by Secretary ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama Administration today released a coordinated interim action plan to address the water crisis in California. In accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by six federal agencies at the end of September, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Chair Nancy ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: OMAK, Wash. – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visited the Incident Command Post of the North Star Fire in Washington state, where she met ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to rural communities , U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor today announced that more than 1,900 local governments around the country will receive an additional $34.5 million in payments under the 2015 Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The proposal to list Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) under Appendix I of CITES was not adopted today by the Parties. The proposal, sponsored by the Principality of Monaco, and strongly supported by the United States, garnered intense debate by the Parties due to the importance of this migratory fish species for commercial purposes. The final tally was 20 in support, 68 against and 30 abstentions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined hundreds of community members and local leaders to celebrate the Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains National Monuments, which were designated by President Obama earlier this year. Located ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar kicked off the White House Tribal Nations Conference today at the Interior Department, emphasizing President Obama's commitment to reform, restructure and rebuild federal relations with Indian Country and underscoring initiatives that are building safer and stronger American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PELICAN ISLAND, FL – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today celebrated the establishment of six new national wildlife refuge units during the past year and the renaming of a seventh in honor of a late Fish and Wildlife Service director by laying commemorative planks on a walkway at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the nation's first refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a ground-breaking commitment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to accelerate and focus conservation efforts that will benefit ranchers and also the distinct population of greater sage-grouse population that lives along the border of Nevada and California. The bi-state population of sage-grouse is being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor will host a Listening Session on March 3, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico to hear directly from tribal leaders and individual landowners on the progress of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program). ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: KALISPELL, Mt - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester today announced the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the World Heritage Center will conduct a review early this fall of the potential threats, such as proposed coal mining and oil and gas development, to the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in Montana and Alberta, Canada.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced the “homecoming” of two iconic works of art for long-term display in the Interior Museum after being loaned to other museums by Secretary Udall in the late 1960s. The panoramic masterpieces, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a press conference to discuss the next steps in the reorganization of the Minerals Management Service (MMS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today welcomed the decision of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to once again add the Everglades National Park to the List of World Heritage in Danger, symbolizing both the United States' commitment to the restoration of the Everglades ecosystem and the administration's efforts to restore the role of sound science in the decision-making process.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: In light of tonight’s events at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt issues the following statement:
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 Nebraska that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada today announced an agreement to develop a 25-square mile Solar Demonstration Zone on federal lands in Nevada to demonstrate cutting-edge solar energy technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: O‘AHU, HAWAI‘I – As part of a new partnership with world-renowned musician, waterman and conservationist Jack Johnson, fourth-grade students in Hawai‘i ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Based on updated information and scientific assessments, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) Dr. Marcia McNutt (Director of the U.S. Geological Survey) today announced an improved estimate of how much oil is flowing from the leaking BP well.
