News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced today that the Bureau of Land Management will issue payments totaling $14 million for Fiscal Year 2018 to 18 counties in western Oregon eligible under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act extension. The BLM manages the Secure Rural Schools program in Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands , known as the O&C Lands, in concert with the U.S. Forest Service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a new $33 million partnership with farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to use innovative approaches to restore and protect the habitats for wildlife, including seven at-risk species and other vulnerable game species.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – With its newest contribution, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced today that it has transferred $4 million to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund (Scholarship Fund), bringing the total transferred funds to nearly $35 million. The Scholarship Fund -- funded in part by the Land ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: "President Donald J. Trump and the entire administration are delivering on promises that the President has made to the American people. In the first 500 days of President Trump's Administration, the Department of the Interior has relit the pilot light of American energy production, increasing energy ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Last night, the Partnership for Public Service announced its yearly report titled "The Best Places to Work." In the first year under U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has improved from 11th place to 9th place among all the large ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Registering at a 5.8 Magnitude, the earthquake that rattled the East Coast Tuesday afternoon was one of the largest in decades.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: On Wednesday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced its finalized rule, Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act , modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to accelerate environmental reviews, improve American infrastructure, and advance a smarter regulatory agenda for the American people.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: After three years of drought and nearly half a century of neglect, California's water infrastructure is failing to the meet the needs of Californians. Moreover, the California Bay Delta, upon which more than 22 million people and a $28 billion agricultural industry rely for their water, is in a state of environmental collapse.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Furthering progress on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the proposed lease sale for 81,130 acres offshore New York for commercial wind energy leasing.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland joined the Secretaries of Energy, Commerce, and Transportation in a White House forum to meet with representatives from states, the offshore wind industry, and members of the labor community to identify solutions to the greatest challenges facing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: NEW YORK, NY – On Friday, May 30, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will announce a new National Park Service theme study to identify places and events associated with the civil rights struggle of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans and ensure that the agency is telling a complete story of America's heritage and history.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing the Interior Department to follow President Trump’s One Federal Decision framework for processing of environmental reviews and permits for major infrastructure projects. The MOU was also ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A sale of federal oil and natural gas leases for the Western Gulf of Mexico attracted $115,466,321 in high bids today, following yesterday's $1.1 million sale of onshore energy leases in Utah, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced. To date this year, the department has offered 55 million acres of U.S. public land – onshore and offshore – for oil and gas development, generating more than $875 million in revenues.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today announced $500,000 in grants to help fund 10 projects that will document historic properties associated with underrepresented communities in the National Register of Historic Places.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK, N.Y.- Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the outdoors, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of New York that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission today approved $61.3 million in funding to protect, restore and enhance more than 205,000 acres of wetlands and associated uplands in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has the potential to store a mean of 3,000 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in geologic basins throughout the country, according to the first-ever detailed national geologic carbon sequestration assessment released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The assessment comes on the heels of a national plan to combat climate change announced by President Obama yesterday.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BURLINGTON, VT – At the invitation of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver keynote remarks at the 2nd Leahy Center Environmental Summit in Burlington, Vermont on Friday. The theme of this year's summit is “Climate Change Resilient, Floodwater Smart.”
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced a Secretarial Order encouraging cooperative management opportunities between the Department’s land and water managers and federally-recognized tribes. The Secretarial Order sets out a framework to ensure that ...
