News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BALTIMORE – On Thursday, Aug. 25, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor will deliver remarks and welcome 25 new citizens at a special naturalization ceremony at the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in honor ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- America's wetlands declined slightly from 2004-2009, underscoring the need for continued conservation and restoration efforts, according to a report issued today by the Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The findings are consistent with the Service's Status and Trends Wetlands reports from previous decades that reflect a continuous but diminishing decline in wetlands habitat over time.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CAMBRIDGE, Md. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that due to concerted conservation efforts by landowners and other partners, the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel, one of the animals included on the first list of endangered species nearly a half century ago, has recovered across many parts of its historic range and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove it from the Endangered Species List.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Department of the Interior disbursed, or paid out, $12.15 billion in revenue generated from energy production on public lands and offshore areas in Fiscal Year 2012 – a $1 billion increase over the previous year, and in line ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s full committee markup of 12 pieces of legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In advance of a major public meeting tomorrow on how to further improve the conservation of natural, historic, and cultural resources of the San Luis Valley, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the designation of the Trujillo Homesteads, an early Latino settlement in Colorado's San Luis Valley, as a National Historic Landmark.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today toured the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, along with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Senator Claire McCaskill. Secretary Salazar, Secretary LaHood and Senator McCaskill reviewed the winning design concept to revitalize the park and met with stakeholders to discuss pending refinements and implementation of the plan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor will make an important announcement regarding cooperative management of wildlife resources on federal lands during remarks to the 26th Annual Bureau of Indian Affairs Providers Conference in Anchorage, Alaska on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Lawrence Roberts will join Deputy Secretary Connor at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Providers Conference.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, joined by U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, convened an official meeting of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force on Monday in ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – With the 2016 wildfire season already underway, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today led a discussion with federal family firefighting agencies at the White House regarding the increasing danger to communities in wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas as fire seasons become hotter, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced the availability of a report by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the possible impacts of new emission standards for the control of regional haze. DOI commissioned ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: RED BLUFF, CALIF.- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor broke ground today at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam on Diamond Avenue as part of the largest Department of the Interior economic stimulus project in the nation. The ground breaking marks the beginning ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Estevan R. López to serve as Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation. President Obama announced his intent to nominate López as Commissioner on March 6, 2014, and he has been serving as Principal Deputy Commissioner since October 8, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO, IL – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel today toured the Michele Clark Academic Preparatory High School on Chicago's West Side. Michele Clark is one of Chicago's five Early College Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Schools, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: KIRKLAND, Wash. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Google Executive Eric Young to announce Google’s $165,000 donation to the National Park Foundation’s Open OutDoors for Kids program. The donation to the National Park Foundation (NPF) – the official nonprofit partner of the National ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama Administration today announced the creation of a new federal interagency council to coordinate and promote outdoor recreation opportunities on public lands in partnership with federal, state, and tribal agencies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Economic Report for Fiscal Year 2015. The report highlights that Interior investments in recreation, conservation, water and renewable energy led to $106 billion in economic output, and supported ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
