News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: McLEAN, Va. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today underscored the importance of outdoor recreation for young people, taking a hike with members of the Youth Conservation Corps at Great Falls Park outside Washington, one of thousands of federal, state, and local parks and wildlife refuges near urban areas across the country.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing to consider the nominations of Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, and Margo Schlanger to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. - Today, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke hailed 331 million recreation visits to America’s national parks in 2016 – a third consecutive all-time attendance record for the National Park Service. Zinke made ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today applauded President Biden’s proposed American Jobs Plan, a bold proposal that will bolster the nation’s infrastructure and create millions of good-paying jobs. The plan contains several provisions that would fund Interior initiatives seeking to address the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, honor our nation-to-nation relationship with Tribes, and invest in a clean energy future.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of 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 Kansas that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order and a presidential memorandum which together will increase broadband availability for rural Americans. The memo to Secretary Zinke directs the Department of the Interior to develop a plan to allow private high-speed broadband companies ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GLASGOW - In her first event of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland highlighted the ongoing work in the United States to deliver on President Biden’s commitment to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030. She also issued a global challenge for every applicable country to join in setting ambitious domestic offshore wind energy commitments.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation's Mid-Pacific Region has awarded a $14.6 million contract under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for construction of the Delta-Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie Pumping Plant and Pipeline (Intertie).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointments of 18 people to the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council, a group created earlier this year to advise the two departments about recreational hunting and shooting sports activities and associated wildlife and habitat conservation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In honor of Public Lands Day, this Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are pleased to announce a variety of planned activities, including: cleaning up rivers, lakes and wetlands; mulching the Lincoln Memorial; restoring fish and wildlife habitat; a wild horse auction, and free entrance at hundreds of federal recreation sites on public lands nationwide.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MERRITT ISLAND, Fla.- More than 45 threatened and endangered sea turtle hatchlings were released the night of Aug. 2, on a remote beach along Florida's East Coast, the final stage in an unprecedented rescue effort.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: DULUTH, MN – On Thursday, May 19, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver the commencement address at the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College 2016 Commencement Ceremony. Secretary Jewell will be joined by White House Special Assistant to the President for Native American Affairs Karen Diver.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today met with Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert today to discuss their ongoing work together and to follow up on their productive discussions and meeting in Utah in April.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar released a first-of-its-kind report showing that Department of the Interior programs and activities support more than 1.4 million American jobs and more than $370 billion in economic activity across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK – Touring one of the country's oldest national parks, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today encouraged Americans to participate in the Obama Administration's America's Great Outdoors Initiative, which is promoting innovative community-level efforts to conserve outdoor spaces and to reconnect people to the outdoors.
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 Arizona. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $319.1 million in Arizona as part of the recovery plan ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Next week, a Paris auction house will hold a sale which includes American Indian tribal sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony. Last December, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell met with France's former Minister of Justice to seek cooperation in working to repatriate these sacred objects to Indian tribes in the United States. Jewell issued the following statement today:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Senator Jeff Bingaman, Agriculture Under Secretary Harris Sherman and other administration officials at a public listening session today 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 - PacificCorp, local, state, tribal and federal partners have reached a draft agreement on a proposal to remove four dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Today, Kate MacGregor, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Department of the Interior who is exercising the authority of the Deputy Secretary, joined the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire and Aviation Management Unit (UCR) to transfer a wildland ...
