News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-At a meeting of water leaders from the seven Colorado River Basin states in Phoenix today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Department of the Interior has chosen the University of Arizona as home base for a regional Climate Science Center and selected the Colorado River Basin for the launch of the first U.S. water census since 1978.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Department of the Interior has started work on its 4,000th American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project, a $7.2 million school improvement project at the St. Francis Indian School in South Dakota. Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will visit the school next week, where he will represent Secretary Salazar in a groundbreaking ceremony.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Making good on a commitment from a robust review of the effectiveness of the Federal Subsistence Management Program in Alaska, the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Agriculture today updated regulations defining which parts of the state are rural or nonrural, thus determining where federal law provides a preference for subsistence take of fish and wildlife on federal public lands and waters in Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a new science plan that will serve as an action-oriented blueprint for acquiring information needed to make science-based decisions to restore and conserve the imperiled ‘sagebrush sea,’ a roughly 500,000-square-mile-area of sagebrush steppe habitat across western North America.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC -- As they emphasized the importance of continued vigilance and interagency coordination in the joint response to the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today laid out the next steps ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC –Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded $4.5 million to the Perkins County Rural Water System under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will convene top U.S. government scientists and key industry and stakeholder leaders to discuss how to strengthen capabilities for responding to potential blowouts of oil and gas wells in deepwaters on the Outer Continental Shelf.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - The sixth and last defendant in a marijuana and cocaine conspiracy case was sentenced on Monday to 17 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced her selection of Dr. Jean O'Brien, of the University of Minnesota, and Pamela Agoyo, of the University of New Mexico, to serve as the Secretary's appointees to the Board of Trustees for the Cobell Education scholarship fund. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced the approval of $927,000 for the Tribal Youth Coastal Restoration Program , which will fund projects estimated to restore up to 1,000 acres of wildlife habitat on Tribal lands along the Gulf Coast. The program will fund hands-on opportunities ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ROSEDALE, LA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained two agreed preliminary injunctions in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Louisiana in Baton Rouge to prevent a Rosedale farm, its owner and anyone acting on their behalf, from intimidating, threatening, restraining, coercing, black listing, discharging or in any manner discriminating against any person who has engaged in any protected activity.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has received Shell Offshore, Inc. Exploration Plan to explore two leases in the Beaufort Sea and has deemed it “complete.”
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GOLDEN, Colo. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State of Colorado and local municipalities today closed on a land exchange that will allow approximately 1,200 acres of important wildlife habitat to be added to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, increasing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today named Rear Admiral James A. Watson IV as the Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). BSEE was one of the two agencies to succeed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) on Oct. 1, 2011. Admiral Watson will begin as BSEE Director on Dec. 1, 2011, and will succeed Michael R. Bromwich.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In response to several requests, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the department is extending the deadline by 30 days to receive nominations for membership on a national committee to guide and oversee U.S. implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a draft Secretarial Order to promote the co-development of oil and gas and potash resources within the Secretary's Potash Area (SPA) in southeast New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: CONCORD, Calif. – On Sunday, July 17, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will tour the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial and participate in commemoration events to honor the 320 lives lost – most of whom were African American enlisted men – in the 1944 munitions explosion. On the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt released the following statement on the 75th anniversary of D-Day:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Main Interior Building. Today, we are taking another step toward changing how the Department of the Interior does business, and cleaning up a major misstep of the previous Administration. . I have closely reviewed the previous Administration's mountaintop coal mining rule, which allowed coal mine operators ...
