News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced more than $53 million in grants to 17 states to support conservation planning and acquisition of vital habitat for threatened and endangered fish, wildlife, and plants.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that BOEM has offered a right-of-way (ROW) grant to Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission System, LLC (Deepwater Wind) for the Block Island Transmission System (BITS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT – Responding to President Obama's call to increase the efficiency of federal permitting and review of infrastructure projects, the interagency Bakken Federal Executive Group met yesterday in Montana where they continued the dialogue on ways to facilitate the development of oil and gas resources in the booming Bakken Formation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – On Saturday, Oct. 17, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join a celebration at San Antonio Missions ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke received a report from the Department of the Interior Sage-Grouse Review Team (DOI Team) regarding possible plan and policy modifications to complement state efforts to improve Greater Sage-Grouse conservation and economic development on public ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, AK - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes today are completing their trip to Alaska where they have spent several days meeting with local communities, representatives of Alaska Native organizations, stakeholders, and energy industry officials to discuss energy and conservation issues on Alaska's North Slope.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced that an additional $1 million has been transferred to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund, bringing the total transferred in 2014 to more than $4.5 million. The Scholarship Fund was authorized by the historic Cobell Settlement and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining 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 South Carolina that will be included in the final report – representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. – On Friday, December 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will visit the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument as part of a nationwide tour highlighting Interior's progress for managing America's public lands, water and wildlife and the gains for conservation under the Obama Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today commended an agreement between the governments of British Columbia and Montana to strengthen protections for the Flathead River Basin and the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the nomination of Aurelia Skipwith to be the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt applauded the nomination.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – In an historic step forward in the nation's clean energy future, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved the first large-scale solar energy plants ever to be built on public lands. The two projects, both located in California, are the first in a series of renewable energy projects on public lands under final review by the Department of the Interior that would provide thousands of U.S. jobs and advance U.S. clean energy technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Following an exhaustive environmental review, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) has approved construction of the 4.5 mile section of the proposed 146 mile Susquehanna-Roseland Transmission Line that crosses federal land. Approval by ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation, and OXY USA Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $2.05 million plus interest to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Nov. 29, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor Brian Deese will participate in the ‘Exit Interview’ series hosted by the Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Populations of the American bald eagle - the bold national symbol of the United States - have quadrupled since 2009, according to a new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners. Bald eagles once teetered on the brink of extinction, reaching an all-time low of 417 known ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WILBERFORCE, OH - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, representatives from the National Park Foundation and the Trust for Public Land, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members and local officials and community members to celebrate the establishment ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, Aug. 13, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver the keynote address at the National Clean Energy Summit 6.0 in Las Vegas, NV. Secretary Jewell will discuss the President's Climate Action Plan and important conservation and mitigation measures Interior is implementing as it works to promote domestic energy on public lands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On April 23, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice will convene the first White House Council on Native American Affairs (WHCNAA) meeting of the Biden-Harris administration. Secretary Haaland will serve as the Council’s Chair.
