News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -The United States Geological Survey (USGS) today released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. The assessments found that the formations contain an estimated ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced President Obama's fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget request of $11.9 billion for the Department of the Interior, saying it makes key investments to maintain vital funding for Interior's missions, in landscape-level conservation, balanced ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PEEPLES VALLEY, AZ – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today visited the Incident Command Posts for the Yarnell Fire and Dean Peak Fire in Arizona, where she met with first responders and volunteers. Secretary Jewell thanked them for their service as they work to contain the fires and protect human life and property.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama's signing of five major settlements for Indian Country, calling the agreements a milestone in empowerment and reconciliation for the Nation's First Americans.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Next week, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to North Dakota to highlight steps the Obama Administration is taking to create jobs, decrease our dependence on foreign oil, cut carbon pollution, and grow our economy as part of an all-of-the-above American-made energy strategy. This will be the Jewell's first trip to the Bakken region as Secretary.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ABERDEEN - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited several sites related to offshore wind today in Aberdeen, where she met with government, industry and organization representatives from the U.K. and discussed the Biden-Harris administration’s goals to accelerate a robust, sustainable clean energy economy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Following Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell's recent visit with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor today announced that more than $8.3 million in purchase offers have been mailed to nearly 2,100 individual ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Attached is a letter from Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Salazar to BP CEO Tony Hayward.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, local officials and community stakeholders on Maryland's Eastern Shore to celebrate President Obama's establishment of Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument as the 399th unit of the National Park System.
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 scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center in Colorado who created a “war room” where partner agencies and universities can use advanced technology to better document, map and predict the spread of harmful invasive plants, animals and diseases.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt signed Secretary’s Order 3380 which directs the Department of the Interior to develop procedures to track the total costs associated with the preparation, review and issuance of publications, reports, studies, analyses and similar documents produced by the Department and improve public understanding of the costs associated with the Department's operations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As part of the overall effort to modernize the Nation’s energy regulations, the U.S. Department of the Interior today released final regulations that will improve valuation and revenue collection for the country’s mineral resources, ensuring Americans receive every dollar due for production ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: JORDAN, MT – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will open the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (CMR) for emergency grazing relief. Allotments will be made immediately available for ranchers who lost grazing land in the Lodgepole Complex fires.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON –Today, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and ConocoPhillips, announced a new NFWF $2.7 million grant program to enhance and improve the quality of habitat in state identified, priority big-game winter ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, the New York Times continued to push a false narrative about the Trump Administration, launching an interactive list of Department of the Interior leaders and their backgrounds prior to joining the Administration. The selective information provided paints an erroneous picture about ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced he is reforming and restructuring the Department's management of U.S. energy resources, starting with the termination of the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) controversial Royalty in Kind program that accepts oil and natural gas from producers in lieu of cash royalties.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Week in Review Out West. Over the past week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has been traveling through the West, making stops in North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and New Mexico. He started the western swing in Hope, ND where he joined Governor Doug Burgum and Senators Kevin Cramer and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior today released guidelines designed to help wind energy project developers avoid and minimize impacts of land-based wind projects on wildlife and their habitats. The voluntary guidelines will help shape the smart siting, design and operation of the nation's growing wind energy economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man was charged today with allegedly distributing videos and images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
