News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited three offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico today, where he received updates on the improved inspection process and additional safety requirements for blowout preventers and well construction.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today visited an offshore drilling rig and production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-day visit to the Department's regional offices that oversee oil and gas development in federal waters. Earlier, Secretary Jewell met with Interior employees, praising them for their professionalism and commitment to their mission, including safe and responsible energy development and Gulf Coast restoration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Oceans Council, of which the Department of the Interior is a member, today released for public comment expanded outlines of action plans to implement President Obama's National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts and the Great Lakes. Kicking off National ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary Ken Salazar today announced the Interior Department's plan of actions, as directed by President Obama in his memorandum dated November 5, 2009, to implement Executive Order 13175, Consultation and Coordination With Indian Tribal Governments, which directs Executive Branch ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOISE, IDAHO – Lockheed Martin and KAMAN Corporations today demonstrated for federal officials how the remotely ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In an effort to carry out President Trump’s call to improve America’s infrastructure and transform our roads and bridges, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the state of Maryland have signed a non-binding general agreement to work together to explore possible legislative solutions regarding future management alternatives for a 19-mile portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that is administered by the National Park Service (NPS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Recently returned from a visit to Florida and the Everglades, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today sent a letter to Senator Bill Nelson and Congressman Kendrick Meeks reemphasizing his support for H.R. 2811 S.373 and recommending that the legislation be amended to ban the importation and trade of all nine large constrictor snake species considered invasive or potentially invasive in the United States, including the Burmese python.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Urban Waters Federal Partnership, an interagency group in which the Department of the Interior is one of the leaders, has won the "People's Choice" award in the Service to America Medals. The nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service announced the award on September 27 at its annual gala popularly dubbed the "Oscars of Government Service."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA -- As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, today's Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 238 attracted $109,951,644 million in high bids for 81 tracts covering 433,823 acres on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf offshore Texas. A total of 14 offshore energy companies submitted 93 bids.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced today that the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (USEITI) Advisory Committee will hold its first public meeting on Feb. 13, 2013, in Washington, DC.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the winner of the 2015 “Share the Experience” photography contest on CBS This Morning and Interior's popular Instagram account and launched the 2016 contest.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BRASILIA – During his upcoming visit to Brazil, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will promote key strategic partnerships in tourism, energy development and open government as part of President Obama's efforts to create jobs, enhance offshore energy safety and make government more transparent and effective.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer in a ceremony at the Canadian Embassy celebrating an agreement to protect the transboundary Flathead River Basin. The agreement reached today by British Columbia and The Nature Conservancy-U.S. and The Nature Conservancy Canada will protect the Canadian portion of the Flathead River Basin from oil, gas and minerals development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In support of President Obama's strategy to spur domestic energy production on public lands, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that Interior would accelerate a lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), holding it before the end of this year and annually ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Trump Administration highlighted the efforts made in 2019 by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Joint Opioid Reduction Task Force in Indian Country, as law enforcement officials successfully led 14 operations across seven states, resulting in more than 313 arrests and the seizure ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TULSA, OK – A Tulsa oilfield construction company denied overtime wages to nine electricians and electrician helpers when it paid them a flat salary for all the hours they worked in an attempt to avoid overtime pay, a federal investigation has found.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn today praised the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which includes important provisions for federally recognized tribal communities, saying it advances the progress the nation has made ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: African American History Month Visit Follows Acquisition of Dr. King’s Birth and Life Home
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In a major milestone for the Department of the Interior’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), Deputy Secretary Michael Connor today announced that more than $500 million has been paid to more than 24,000 individual landowners to restore the equivalent of nearly 850,000 acres of land to tribal governments.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK, NY - Donald “Del” Laverdure, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, today addressed the United Nations on U.S. support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He emphasized that President Obama holds his Administration to a high standard of action on Native American issues.
