News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will welcome 600 students at a celebration of National Parks Week and speak at an event marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22. He will emphasize President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Initiative and the importance of getting young people out into nature to continuing our nation's conservation legacy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today praised President Obama's intent to nominate Michael L. Connor to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Since 2009, Connor has served as Commissioner of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Even as the nation battled the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration continued to make significant gains last year in expanding renewable energy initiatives on public lands and offshore areas, according to a detailed report submitted to Congress by the Interior and Agriculture departments.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today applauded the Senate's confirmation 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. The Senate confirmed Washburn's nomination, which President Obama announced in early August, by unanimous consent last night.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced $10 million in funding for projects aimed at restoring the health and fire resilience of iconic landscapes nationwide. Project locations span from conifer forests, deserts and sagebrush-steppe in the West to the coastal plain of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, NV – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today issued a Secretarial Order elevating the Office of the National Landscape Conservation System and Community Partnerships in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the level of a directorate within BLM.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded President Obama's announcement that he intends to nominate Anne Castle to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science. Castle has more than 25 years of experience in water rights, water quality and natural resources law. She currently serves as a partner in the Denver, Colo. office of Holland & Hart LLP.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Mrs. Laura Bush, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Lynn Scarlett and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Chairman John L Nau, III, today announced the first round of Preserve America Grants for FY 2009 for a total of nearly $3 million for 31 community and state and tribal historic ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Advancing the President’s Climate Action Plan to create jobs, cut carbon pollution and develop clean domestic energy, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized its rule governing solar and wind energy development on public lands. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today established the boundaries of Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park , celebrating a significant milestone in the ongoing evolution of a national park that tells the story of the birth of America’s industrialization and its profound impact on society. Secretary Haaland made the announcement in a meeting with members of the Rhode Island congressional delegation today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Interior has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and is seeking public comment on a proposal to withdraw lands in the Grand Canyon watershed that would affect uranium and other hardrock mineral development in that area.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON, MA – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today joined Massachusetts Governor ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif., -- The Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service today announced the availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement on California's Bay Delta Conservation Plan. The goals of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan are to help restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem and improve California's water supply reliability.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell today held a public listening session as part of President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative to develop a conservation agenda for the 21st century.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Obama Administration is fully engaged in a coordinated response to California's ongoing water crisis, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Chair Nancy Sutley of the White House Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) and other top Obama Administration officials reported today at a public meeting with California state officials in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Ken Salazar. Washington, DC. Good morning. On behalf of President Barack Obama and the United States Department of the Interior, I am humbled and honored to celebrate with you the birth of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall as the nation's 395th National Park. . I remember vividly ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Director of the Bureau of Land Management Bob Abbey today announced that following an extensive public process, the agency is accelerating fundamental reforms to how it manages wild horses and burros on public lands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PAGE, Ariz. – The U.S. Department of the Interior today initiated another high-flow release of water from Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona under an innovative science-based experimental plan. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Tuesday May 3, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Senator Jon Tester to meet with business and community leaders to discuss a variety of issues important to the state, including the economic benefits of Montana’s $5.8 billion outdoor recreation economy, balanced energy development and upholding trust responsibilities to Native Americans.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. . WASHINGTON. Mount Si Trail. Just a 40-minute drive from Seattle, the four-mile Mount Si Trail is one of the most popular hikes in the Pacific Northwest. The main summit of this iconic mountain reveals stunning views of Snoqualmie Valley, the Seattle skyline, and the Olympic Mountains ...