News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Originally Published by the Santa Fe New Mexican
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Ashland, Ore. – On Friday, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor joined Senator Jeff Merkley, Mayor John Stromberg of Ashland and Mayor Darby Stricker of Talent as well as other state, local and tribal officials, to listen to members of the community on their vision for the management of public lands in Southwestern Oregon, and the proposed expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – In a major step toward fully implementing the historic Cobell settlement, the Department of the Interior announced today that it has sent initial purchase offers to consolidate ownership of highly fractionated trust lands. Working closely with the Oglala Sioux leadership to facilitate ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today marked the upcoming eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by meeting with families of the heroes who died on Flight 93, preventing an attack on Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will be in New Orleans on Friday to announce another milestone toward the restoration of the Gulf coast region following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. At 9am CST, Jewell will join local, federal and state officials to announce the third and largest phase of early restoration projects along the Gulf Coast as proposed by the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Websites and Hotlines:. * For information about the response effort. * Interior's response effort homepage. * To volunteer, call 1-866-448-5816. * To report oiled wildlife, call 1-866-557-1401. Messages will be checked hourly. * To report spill related damage, please call 1-800-440-0858. * For information ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: RENO, NV – On Tuesday, April 21, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will make an important conservation announcement for Nevada and California. Secretary Jewell will be joined by Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, USDA Under Secretary Robert Bonnie, California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird, and local and state partners to highlight an effective partnership for the conservation of the bi-state population of greater sage-grouse.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senior White House and Department of the Interior officials today honored 16 groups and individuals as the top national winners of the Take Pride in America® awards for outstanding accomplishments by volunteers.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As Part of the Obama Administration's commitment to rural communities , Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that about 1,900 local governments around the Nation are receiving a total of $399.8 million under the 2013 Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the one-year anniversary of the President's Climate Action Plan , Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Wednesday will release the results of a comprehensive assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) of biological carbon storage and sequestration by ecosystems in the eastern United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Flight 93 Memorial Superintendent Jeff Reinbold, Flight 93 Families President Gordon Felt, Dr. Brent Glass, Flight 93 Advisory Board Commissioner and National Park Service employees, volunteers and families in honoring the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 and all those who lost their lives on September 11th.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: San Diego Union-Tribune. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Earlier this month, I scratched the back of an Indian rhinoceros at the San Diego Zoo, one of the things you can do in San Diego and arguably nowhere else on the planet – at least without risking your life. It's a reason the zoo is one of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Governors and Congressional representatives from each of the U.S. Insular Areas at the annual meeting of the Interagency Group on Insular Affairs (IGIA), hosted by the Department of the Interior, to discuss how the Obama Administration can support Insular Area governments' efforts to grow their economies, create jobs, increase skills training and improve education.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that BOEM proposes to offer 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for March 2019. The sale would include all available unleased areas in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, VA – On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today launched a $100-million Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Competitive Grant Program to fund science-based solutions to restore natural areas along the Atlantic Coast, helping to deliver on the Administration's commitment in the Climate Action Plan to make local communities more resilient against future storms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Grand Teton, Wyo. – Today, First Lady of the United States Melania Trump and U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt joined second and fourth graders in Grand Teton National Park for a field trip highlighting the importance of the Every Kid Outdoors Program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today, the Department of the Interior announced thousands of acres rich in recreation opportunities in the Lower Blackfoot River corridor will open to the public following the signing of a decision record yesterday by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Nature Conservancy officials. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today thanked President Trump for signing a Presidential Emergency Declaration for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which was hard hit by Hurricane Irma last week. The tribe made its request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as soon as it was able to do so. This is the first such declaration ever approved for a tribal nation according to FEMA.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Ken Salazar. Baltimore, Maryland. It's great to be here with you in Baltimore. We did this last year in Atlantic City and the year before that in Chicago. I'm glad to be back. I see a lot familiar faces in the audience. . Like AWEA's fearless CEO, Denise Bode and President of the Offshore Wind Development ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Newark, Delaware - Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) today visited the University of Delaware, where they underscored the importance of alternative energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), especially offshore wind resources ...
