News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the appointments of 23 individuals to the Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council, an advisory panel created in 1993 to advise the Secretary on nationally significant recreational fishing, boating and aquatic resource conservation issues.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – Talk Show Host Joe Madison will speak on Feb. 26, 2010, in the Department of the Interior's Sidney Yates Auditorium in a special Black History Month Program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HANOI, Vietnam – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today concluded an official visit to Vietnam where she met with senior government officials, including Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, to discuss ways the United States and the South Asian country can work together to combat the world’s growing trade in illegal wildlife, which threatens to push to extinction species ranging from elephants and rhinos to marine turtles, tigers and pangolins.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Port Fourchon, La. – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released the final improved Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control regulations. BSEE’s final Well Control Rule – as the regulation is commonly known – removes unnecessary ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Chairman Ronald Trahan of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, located in Montana, will announce a cooperative agreement to implement the Land Buy Back for Tribal Nations Program (Buy-Back Program) ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a grant award for $1,397,050 to the State of Texas General Land Office for a project to seal in abandoned oil and natural gas wells in state waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded President Obama's nomination of Kevin K. Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland wrapped her weeklong trip out West today in Yellowstone National Park. The swing featured stops in Washington state, California, and Wyoming where she highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s historic investments in America’s infrastructure, the clean energy economy, and conservation efforts, consistent with the America the Beautiful initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - While an overwhelming majority of the 500 million acres of public lands managed by the Department of the Interior (Department) has remained accessible to the public throughout the pandemic, some public sites were closed as a result of following state and local public health directives. President ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt released the Department of the Interior’s Economic Report for Fiscal Year 2019, highlighting the Department’s economic contributions that arise from managing Federal lands and waters and making investments that conserve and restore ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Thursday, June 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will visit the Spokane Tribe of Indians in Washington State to meet with tribal and community leaders to commemorate their selection earlier this week as a Promise Zone by the Obama Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BLADENSBURG, M.D.-Officials from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and key U.S. federal agencies including the Department of the Interior, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency today gathered at Bladensburg Waterfront Park to highlight progress made to restore the Anacostia River Watershed and call attention to projects underway to transform it into a model urban waterway and park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, chaired by U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, approved $28 million in funding for various wetland conservation projects.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) will receive title to submerged lands extending three geographical miles seaward from the islands' coasts, but today the President withheld the transfer of submerged lands adjoining two islands where ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: FREEPORT, ME - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis today joined Senator Susan Collins at L.L. Bean's flagship store to highlight the importance of outdoor recreation and investment in conservation of parks and other public lands. They later visited the University of Maine to tour its deepwater offshore wind technology testing facility.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich today announced the structures and responsibilities of two new, independent agencies that will carry out the offshore energy management and enforcement functions once assigned to the former Minerals Management Service (MMS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Energy Secretary Steven Chu today issued the following statement regarding the permanent plugging of BP's Macondo well.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: NAPA, Calif. – On Friday, Dec. 19, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-5), as well as other federal, state and local officials in a visit to the Berryessa-Snow Mountain region in north central California. Jewell will attend Congressman Thompson's ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that Interior's eight regional Climate Science Centers are awarding nearly $7 million to universities and other partners for research as part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution, move our economy toward clean energy sources and begin to prepare our communities for the impacts of climate change.
