News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Senator Bob Casey and the families of the Flight 93 heroes to break ground on the Flight 93 National Memorial. Senator Arlen Specter and Congressmen John Murtha and Bill Shuster had representatives there on their behalf.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland today announced the appointment of renowned wildlife law expert Michael Bean as counselor.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced that a public comment period will be held to collect suggestions for formation of a multi-stakeholder group that will implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary, multi-national framework for transparency ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Departments of the Interior, Education and Health and Human Services launched a new interagency initiative today to preserve, protect, and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice, and develop Native languages.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed what they called “a model of federal-state initiative and cooperation” to use expedited review and processing and Recovery Act funding to spur the development of environmentally appropriate renewable energy on U.S. lands in California.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – To further President Obama’s National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking , U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today participated in a White House roundtable meeting with leaders from top U.S. companies taking significant steps to help change consumer buying behavior and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As part of President Obama's commitment to help strengthen Native American communities, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the latest step in the implementation of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), as the Department ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that $400,000 in Land and Water Conservation Funds will be used to acquire and preserve an additional 285 acres of hallowed grounds on the Gaines Mill battlefield at Richmond National Battlefield Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Interior Department is making swift progress on President Obama's clean energy agenda, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said today at the Alliance to Save Energy's Summit in the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. The full text of Secretary Salazar's remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today presented a Partners in Conservation Award to the Rappahannock Land Protection Partnership in Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ATLANTA – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe and hundreds of volunteers at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia, to commemorate the 20th annual National Public Lands Day (NPLD).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, July 30, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will sign an historic agreement at the Department of the Interior that will guarantee water rights for the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona and provide water security for the City of Phoenix and other downstream water users. The ceremony will be live-streamed to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced it would begin Tribal consultations as the next step of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The brown pelican , a species once decimated by the pesticide DDT, has recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. There are now more than 650,000 brown pelicans found across Florida and the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, as well as in the Caribbean and Latin America.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration remains committed to its America First, all of the above approach to domestic energy production as the Department of the Interior (Department) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today the approval of a proposal to construct and operate the largest solar project in United States history.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Following extensive analysis and feedback received from tribal leaders and American Indian landowners, the Department of the Interior today announced a revised strategy for the consolidation of fractional land interests through the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Program). The ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Bureau of Reclamation's 2010 Central Valley Project Water Supply allocations have increased throughout the valley as a result of improved hydrologic conditions as they existed as of April 1, 2010 and as reflected in the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) April 2010 snow survey and runoff forecast.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today named Ned Farquhar, a renewable energy and natural resource policy expert and former senior advisor on energy and the environment to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management. The appointment does not require Senate confirmation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Funding Opportunity Part of Bureau of Indian Education's implementation of American Indian Education Study Group's “Blueprint for Reform;” Sovereignty in Indian Education grants will promote tribal self-determination in education through tribal control of BIE-funded schools
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Rifle, Colorado, native Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt announced the Department will distribute approximately $18 million to the State of Colorado after nearly a decade of the funds being withheld by the Federal government.
