News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Interior Department announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to a new solar energy project on public lands in California. The Crimson Solar Project represents an investment of roughly $550 million and has the potential to deliver enough power to energize approximately 87,500 homes.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Originally Published by: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . By: U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt. . I will never forget the moment I realized our nation was at war on Sept. 11, 2001. Shortly after the World Trade Center towers were hit, I was in former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton’s ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington - With peak wildfire activity predicted in the coming months, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has been working tirelessly to implement preventative measures to limit the size and scope of wildfires, treat current wildfires already underway, and protect wildfire-prone areas to best safeguard people and their communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.--Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today praised bipartisan action to permanently continue historic preservation programs founded by each of the past two First Ladies in legislation passed by the U.S. Senate.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - A secretarial order issued today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar restores balance and clarity to the management of public lands by establishing common-sense policy for the protection of backcountry areas where Americans recreate, find solitude, and enjoy the wild.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BOISE, IDAHO – On Tuesday, Jan. 3, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Idaho as she continues a nationwide tour highlighting Interior's progress for managing America's public lands, water and wildlife. Secretary Jewell will receive ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement today on the tragic loss of three U.S. Forest Service firefighters near Twisp, Washington:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded Senate approval of legislation to authorize implementation of the Cobell Settlement, a $3.4 billion agreement that will resolve the long-running and highly contentious class action lawsuit regarding the U.S. government's trust management and accounting of individual American Indian trust accounts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Saying he needed to restore order to a broken process, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced his strategy for developing an offshore energy plan that includes both conventional and renewable resources.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today outlined the federal government's readiness for the wildland fire season to ensure protection for communities and restoration of forests and grasslands across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation is awarding a construction contract of almost $62 million for part of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in New Mexico to increase the supply of clean drinking water to surrounding communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, on the heels of a groundbreaking directive to expand hunting access on public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced his latest initiative to reemphasize hunting and fishing at the Department with a new temporary addition to the employee cafeteria: the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Full Committee voted to advance 12 bipartisan bills...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In support of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy, and the Obama administration's goal of continuing to expand responsible oil and gas production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the release of a proposed rule to require companies to publicly disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations on public and Indian lands, with appropriate protections for proprietary information.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Albuquerque, NM – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation will invest $12.5 million in New Mexico water infrastructure projects as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The New Mexico funding will go to the Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline and to support infrastructure reliability projects at Elephant Butte Dam and levee repair work along the Rio Grande.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced key members of agency leadership who will join the team working to advance the Biden-Harris administration’s agenda on behalf of the American people.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell applauded the enactment of the U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement that establishes a framework for U.S. offshore oil and gas companies and Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) to jointly develop transboundary reservoirs. President Obama signed it into law today, as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act.
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 announced today that BOEMRE has finalized a proposed rule that will eliminate a redundant step in the noncompetitive leasing process for commercial renewable energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, at an Energy Week event hosted by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, President Donald J. Trump announced that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has taken action to open up the public comment period for a new 5-year National Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program on the Outer Continental ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – On Tuesday, March 17, 2015, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell tomorrow will deliver remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on the Department of the Interior's energy priorities for the next two years and outline the role the federal government can play in shaping a bright, balanced energy future.
