News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following President Donald J. Trump's executive order to break America's dependence on foreign minerals, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed a secretarial order directing the initial steps to producing the first nationwide geological and topographical survey of the United States in modern history. The order also directs Interior bureaus to begin work on identifying immediate domestic sources for critical minerals.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON, Texas -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar continued his oversight activities with BP officials at their Command Center in Houston today, met with the manufacturers of the Blowout Preventer (BOP) device on the damaged wellhead and directed the head of the U.S. Geological Survey to support federal scientists and BP engineers working on ways to cap, control and contain the oil spill.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: On January 19th, 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order and announced new administrative initiatives to significantly increase travel and tourism in and to the United States. The U.S. travel and tourism industry is a substantial component of U.S. GDP, exports, and employment, and efforts to ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: AUSTIN, TX – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Congressman Ciro Rodriguez will hold a media availability at the visitor center at Big Bend National Park at 11:30 a.m. CST on Friday, March 12.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Monday, May 13, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will host a media conference call to provide an outlook for the 2013 fire season and to outline the federal government's efforts to ensure collaboration in protecting Americans from wildfire. They will ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C. – The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be dedicated this Sunday, Oct. 16, in a ceremony hosted by the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. The dedication activities will begin with an 8 a.m. hour-long ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Annapolis, MD – This afternoon, the Chesapeake Executive Council-which represents the seven watershed jurisdictions, a tri-state policy group and federal agencies including the Department of the Interior-signed the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement , committing Chesapeake Bay Program partners to a set of interrelated goals to advance the restoration, conservation and protection of the Bay, its tributaries and the lands that surround them.
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 Montana that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Colorado Springs, Colo. – In advance of the Western Governors' Association annual meeting on Monday, June 9, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will join with other state and federal officials to formalize an agreement intended to boost local and state tourism economies throughout the West.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, announced that the United States supports a proposal submitted by the principality of Monaco to list the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in Appendix I of the Convention on the International ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Commerce 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: SEATTLE – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined U.S. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene today to discuss how scientific research can help communities in the Pacific Northwest become more resilient and reduce the risk of damage from natural disasters and severe storms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior announced today that over one billion barrels of oil were produced in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 from leases on federal and American Indian-owned lands and offshore areas – a historic milestone. This is greater than a 29 percent increase in production ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. – The Department of the Interior announced today that researchers recently discovered Razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus), an endangered fish species, spawning in the lower Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park. The detection of larval Razorback suckers, believed to have ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, Oct. 16, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act with keynote remarks at the National Wilderness Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.– On July 10 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Defense Acting Deputy Under Secretary John Conger will host a national media conference call to announce a federal, local and private collaboration to preserve agricultural lands, assist with military readiness and restore and protect wildlife habitat.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded the decision by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to designate a group of five Spanish colonial missions in the San Antonio area – including most of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and the Alamo – as a World Heritage Site.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of Martha Williams to be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) of the Department of the Interior.
