News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In light of current market conditions and low industry interest, the U.S. Department of the Interior today announced that it will cancel the two potential Arctic offshore lease sales scheduled under the current five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program for 2012-2017. Today, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of her major speech outlining her conservation priorities for the Department, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to California for a multi-day trip to launch her ambitious youth initiative and to hold a public meeting on local conservation efforts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HAGÅTÑA, Guam – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today concluded an official Asia-Pacific trip with a visit to the U.S. Territory of Guam, where she met with Governor Eddie Calvo and addressed local business leaders, underscoring the vital importance of Guam to the Pacific region and the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the One Trillion Trees Interagency Council (Council), which will be responsible for coordinating the Federal government’s support of the global One Trillion Trees Initiative. The EO names U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt as co-chair of the Council, along with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that Interior has designated 192,100 acres of public land across Arizona as potentially suitable for utility-scale solar and wind energy development, furthering President Obama's ‘all-of-the-above' strategy to expand domestic energy production.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued the following statement in response to the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Mark Macarro, Chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians today signed the Pechanga Water Rights Settlement Agreement (Agreement), formally executing a Congressionally authorized pact that protects the Pechanga Band’s access to groundwater in the region and provides the tribe with more than $30 million in federal funding to pay for water storage projects.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell named the members of a new federal council on wildlife trafficking during a Forum to Counter Wildlife Trafficking held at the White House today. The panel will advise the Secretary and members of the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking, a federal interagency group, on ways to improve coordination and implementation of domestic and international efforts to fight wildlife trafficking and poaching.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will speak to a group of land managers, private landowners, university staff, and the media about federal forestry and land management tomorrow at Boise State University. Following the event, the secretaries and Idaho Governor ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today issued the following statement commemorating the Deepwater Horizon oil spill:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Colorado. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $86.2 million in Colorado as part of the recovery plan ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: U.S. Geological Survey scientists have found that the lower 48 states in the U.S. presently store 73 billion metric tons of carbon in soils and 17 billion metric tons in forests. This is equivalent to more than 50 years of America's current CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Continuing his efforts to increase access to public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will open more than 251,000 acres to new or expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 30 national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System. This will now bring the number of units where the public may hunt to 377, and the number where fishing is permitted to 312.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SAN FRANCISCO – On Wednesday, Dec. 14, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver remarks at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting as part of a nationwide tour highlighting progress the nation has made over the past eight years on public lands, waters and wildlife management. U.S. Geological Survey Director Suzette Kimball will also attend.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will announce the results of Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales 231 and 225, which are offering more than 40 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Joining the Secretary on the press conference call will be Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau and BOEM Gulf of Mexico Regional Director John Rodi.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, Department of Defense and FEMA continue to support efforts to protect life, public safety and aid in community recovery from wildfires and subsequent flash flooding in multiple Western states. On June 28, President Obama approved a disaster ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create jobs, cut carbon pollution and develop clean domestic energy, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Thursday, Sept. 15, will join leaders of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians in Clark County, Nevada to make an important ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BRADLEY, Me. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined the Penobscot River Restoration Trust and tribal, state and federal partners to begin the removal of the Great Works Dam, kicking off a multi-year restoration of Maine's largest river.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the implementation of President Biden’s pay initiatives to recognize and support federal wildland firefighters. The initiatives will increase the amount paid to approximately 3,500 firefighters with the U.S. Department of the Interior and more than 11,300 firefighters at the USDA Forest Service to ensure all firefighters are paid at least $15 an hour.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes and California Natural Resources Secretary Lester Snow today jointly announced the commitment of federal and state agencies to complete a draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in November 2010. The Plan is an ambitious multi-year effort involving many stakeholders to develop a long term solution to California's pressing water problems.
