News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of North Carolina that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Great American Outdoors Act Coordination and Implementation Task Force released further details about Fiscal Year 2021 Great American Outdoors Act deferred maintenance and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) projects.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As part of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Outside initiative to prepare the next generation of outdoor stewards and inspire millions of young people to play, learn, serve and work outdoors, U.S. Secretary ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: In the summer of 2009, President Obama and his family traveled to Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park has been a popular destination for many U.S. Presidents over the years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Colleen McAvoy, age 54, of Shushan, New York, pled guilty today to stealing cash, gift cards and other valuable items from mailed packages while employed as a letter carrier.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined leaders from the 566 federally recognized tribes and senior government officials today at the White House Tribal Nations Conference hosted by President Obama. The conference, the fourth held during the Obama Administration, continues to build upon the President's commitment to strengthen the nation to nation relationship with Indian Country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled to Grand Junction, Colorado, today, where she discussed the Department of the Interior’s wildland fire preparedness and response efforts, including investments to improve the Grand Junction Air Center complex, a multi-purpose wildland fire management and operation center. Secretary Haaland was joined by Governor Jared Polis and members of the Colorado congressional delegation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Calling the Deepwater Horizon disaster a technological wake-up call for both the offshore industry and government regulators, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today urged the members of the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee (OESC) to work together to help strengthen the nation's offshore drilling safety, well containment, and spill response as we explore new energy frontiers.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's initiative to spur renewable energy development, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released the draft plan for the Restoration Design Energy Project (RDEP). The initiative seeks to identify lands across Arizona most suitable for wind and solar power projects, with a focus on areas that are previously disturbed or have low natural and cultural resource conflicts.
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 Vermont. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $1.7 million in Vermont as part of the recovery plan signed by the President to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st Century.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor will host a listening session on March 3, 2016, at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to hear directly from tribal leaders and individual landowners on the progress of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program). Deputy Secretary Connor will be joined by Special Trustee for American Indians Vince Logan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: United States Senate - Committee on Environment and Public Works
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LIBERTY, Texas – As part of an ongoing partnership with the AFL-CIO and its official conservation organization, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior issued the following statement today regarding the Feb. 24, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Carcieri v. Salazar, in which the Court said that land could not be taken into trust for the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island under Section 5 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 because the Tribe was not under the jurisdiction of the United States in 1934.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DENVER – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke joined Paul C. Johnson, president of Colorado School of Mines, to announce a long-term partnership between the university and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The partnership will bring more than 150 USGS scientists and their minerals research ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that Betsy Hildebrandt will join his team as Director of Communications and Kendra Barkoff will serve as Press Secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior. They join Deputy Director of Communications Matt Lee-Ashley, who served in Salazar's Senate office and has acted as director of the Office of Communications since Jan. 21, 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes and other senior officials from the Interior Department and Commerce Departments today met with California Natural Resources Secretary Lester Snow, county officials and diverse California water interests about the proposed long-term Bay Delta Conservation Plan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that in the first six months of a pilot program to provide an increased Interior law enforcement presence on identified Interior lands along the US-Mexico border, arrests of illegal aliens entering the United States increased by nearly 4,000 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Eric James Templeton (33, St. Petersburg) to 15 years in federal prison for attempting to entice and meet a 5-year-old child for sex. Templeton was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervised release, to register as a sex offender, and to pay $11,700 in restitution.
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 Nebraska. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest more than $2.7 million in Nebraska as part of the recovery plan signed ...