News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today launched the Department of the Interior's first-ever coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America's land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, at a press conference with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California congressional leaders, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Department of the Interior will invest $1 billion under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) in America's water ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the newly redesigned Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion web site.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MILLINOCKET, ME - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis today met with community leaders, stakeholders, and citizens to discuss a proposal to donate land in northern Maine to the National Park Service for the potential creation of a new national park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the formal establishment of the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site in Hope, Arkansas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Department of the Interior disbursed more than $13.4 billion in revenue generated by energy production on Federal and American Indian lands and offshore areas in Fiscal Year 2014, with increases in state and Indian Country revenues over the prior year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will make her first official visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) on March 30 – 31. Joined by Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina, Secretary Jewell will meet with Governor Kenneth Mapp, deliver keynote remarks at the 99th Transfer ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the appointment of Todd Willens to serve as Chief of Staff. Mr. Willens joined the Department in July of 2017 as the Associate Deputy Secretary and assumed the duties of the Acting Chief of Staff in January 2019.
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 Hawaii. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $28 million in Hawaii as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marking World Wildlife Day, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today highlighted continued progress to implement President Obama’s National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking , and applauded significant commitments from leading U.S. companies to stop consumer demand and limit market access for illegal wildlife products.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced nearly $35 million in grants to 20 states to enable collaborative efforts to conserve many of America's imperiled species, ranging from the red cockaded woodpecker in the Southeast to a variety of bat species in the Midwest to a colorful flower in the Rocky Mountains. A list of the projects by state is available here.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: GALLOWAY, NJ – In advance of next week's one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Interior and local officials tomorrow at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey to announce the funding approval of 45 restoration and research projects that will help protect Atlantic Coast communities from future powerful storms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Following extensive environmental and economic analyses and robust tribal and public outreach, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor today approved the Four Corners Power Plant (FCPP) and Navajo Mine Energy Project in northwestern New Mexico, under a plan that would minimize and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Citing the need to proceed cautiously on the Outer Continental Shelf and to review safety and environmental issues associated with offshore drilling, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that Interior is postponing public scoping meetings for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 2012–2017 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program until later in 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday will launch a new data portal as part of the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (USEITI) to raise the bar on the level of transparency in royalty revenue. The new data portal will be launched at a U.S. Multi-Stakeholder Group public meeting on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: JACKSON, Wyo. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott and Grand Teton National Park Foundation President Leslie Mattson to publicly launch the Inspiring Journeys Campaign – a $16 million dollar public-private partnership to renovate the Jenny Lake area in advance of the National Park Service's Centennial in 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of the Interior today released the first in a series of regional studies measuring the amount of carbon stored in U.S. ecosystems. Published by Interior's U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the study examines the current and projected future carbon storage in the Great Plains region, as part of a nation-wide assessment.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov , a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Addressing the Western Governors' Association today, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the Bureau of Reclamation will make $17.8 million in water and energy efficiency grants available to 36 projects in the western United States and will provide $1.8 million for three river basin studies-for a total of $19.6 million in Federal funding.
