News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Thursday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke participated in Day One of his five-day trip to the Western United States. Secretary Zinke started the morning with a helicopter tour of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks ...
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 New Mexico that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Trump announced the award of a $2 million 9/11 Memorial Act grant to the National September 11 Memorial in New York City. The funding through the National Park Service will provide critical support for the continued operation, maintenance and security of the memorial and museum.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: CAMBRIDGE, Md. – On Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe will join Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and local partners to visit the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and announce an important milestone in the ongoing recovery efforts for the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Hopper today announced the release of an Environmental Assessment (EA) supporting a potential lease sale for more than 300,000 acres of federal waters off the coast of North Carolina for wind energy development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. – On Monday, July 27, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Ross Hopper will celebrate an historic “steel in the water” milestone to mark the start of construction for the nation’s first commercial offshore wind farm. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TOWNSEND, GA – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), reflecting a highly successful conservation and recovery effort spanning three decades. Jewell made the announcement at the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, home to the largest wood stork rookery in Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, July 29, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will hold a press call to detail the Department of the Interior's contributions to the nation's economy in areas ranging from outdoor recreation and tourism to conventional and renewable energy development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the publication of a collaborative strategic plan to continue accelerating the development of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Department of the Interior applauds the selection of Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Douglas W. Domenech and Karen B. Stewart, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to serve as the federal negotiators with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to amend their respective Compacts of Free Association and to lead Compact Review discussions with the Republic of Palau.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will hold a news media teleconference to unveil the annual report on the significant economic contributions of national parks to local, regional and state economies; their importance to the tourism industry, community businesses and park vendors; and the expected impact of budget cuts under a March 1 sequestration.
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 Nevada that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, just two weeks after U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the Department was forming a new Joint Task Force (JTF) to combat the opioid crisis in Indian Country, the Secretary announced the JTF's first raid seized 49 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of $2.5 ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK - In a celebration of the Fourth of July, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, and other dignitaries to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public for the first time since it was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy last October.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Representing the fastest successful recovery for any Endangered Species Act (ESA)-listed mammal in the United States, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today announced the final de-listing of three subspecies of island fox native to California’s Channel Islands. The removal of ...
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 Vermont that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Michael R. Bromwich testified today on the progress of reforms Interior is undertaking to strengthen management and oversight of energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: O‘AHU, HAWAI‘I – On Thursday, Nov. 12, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor will join U.S. Forest Service Associate Chief Mary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that John C. Gurganus, former Chief of the Criminal Division, has been appointed United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania effective Nov. 17, 2021. Mr. Gurganus was appointed...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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