News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Federal, state and Bay-area officials announced a comprehensive civil settlement with the owners and operators of the M/V Cosco Busan, resolving all natural resource damages, penalties and response costs that resulted from the ship striking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today the Biden-Harris administration outlined a vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore the lands, waters, and wildlife that support and sustain the nation. The recommendations are contained in a report released today, outlining a locally led and voluntary nationwide conservation goal to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, June 5, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, Executive Director of Let's Move! and White House Senior Policy Advisor on Nutrition Sam Kass, and executives and chefs from major National Park Service concessioners ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior today announced the launch of a new, comprehensive resource for Indian landowners and tribal governments seeking information about the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program). The website, http://www.doi.gov/buybackprogram, will serve as a one-stop-shop for visitors interested in timely and regularly updated information about the Buy-Back Program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On Monday, April 4, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis met with community members to hear their vision for the future management of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in Washington, D.C., which is currently proposed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, PacificCorp Chief Executive Officer Greg Abel and the chairmen of the Klamath, Yurok and Karuk Tribes in announcing final agreements that could potentially lead to removal of four dams on the Klamath River and the largest river restoration project in our nation's history.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: United States Senate - Committee on the Budget
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that according to data analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the 2018 wildfire season in California is estimated to have released emissions equivalent to roughly 68 million tons of carbon dioxide. This number equates to about ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar praised the work of the 22-member Wind Turbine Guidelines Federal Advisory Committee, which reached consensus on a set of draft recommendations aimed at minimizing the impacts of land-based wind farms on wildlife and its habitat.
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 on Thursday heard overwhelming public support for proposals to add historic locations in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama, to the National Park System in an effort to more fully tell America’s ...
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 Three Mountain Alliance Watershed Partnership for their work in Hawaii.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The following press statement is issued from the Office of the Secretary’s Office of Communications regarding the U.S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decision requiring the Department of the Interior to rescind their decision to take the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s land into trust:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – To improve the safety of oil and gas development in federal waters, provide greater environmental protection and substantially reduce the risk of catastrophic events such as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today called for aggressive new operating ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued a statement regarding a rider in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 affecting potential Endangered Species Act listing decisions for sage-grouse.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SANDY SPRINGS, GA – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called on Congress today to reauthorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) as she joined state and local conservation leaders and groups at the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Secretary Jewell was in ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: DOHA, Qatar – Assistant Secretary of the Interior Tom Strickland will hold a media teleconference to summarize the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on March 24. Strickland headed the U.S. delegation to the 175-nation conference.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture today announced important steps to protect the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a spectacular area in northeastern Minnesota comprised of more than a million acres of lakes and forests.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: RENO, Nevada – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today told tribal leaders that upholding the nation's trust responsibilities to American Indians and Alaska Natives is a moral imperative and sacred duty, underscoring the President's commitment to a true and lasting government-to-government relationship with Tribal Nations.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Full Committee voted to advance 12 bipartisan bills...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today unveiled the National Water Trails System, a new network that will increase access to water-based outdoor recreation, encourage community stewardship of local waterways, and promote tourism that fuels local economies across America.
