News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt released the following statement after President Trump signed into public law H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, and H.R. 1158, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: KEENE, CA - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis and National Park Foundation President Neil Mulholland at the “Telling America's Story: The American Latino Heritage Initiative La Paz Forum” where they announced the establishment of the American ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar released the following statement on the National Academy of Sciences' scientific review of key questions on California Bay Delta water issues:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - As part of the Obama Administration's sustained commitment to restoring and protecting the Everglades, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to Florida this week to mark progress, to tour restoration efforts, and to meet with key stakeholders in the region. This will be Jewell's second official visit to the Everglades since being sworn in as Secretary less than one year ago.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today announced two legislative hearings for next month on Wednesday, Dec. 1, and Thursday, December 9, focused on legislation to hold Big Tech accountable.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – On Saturday, February 6, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is expected to sign a settlement agreement ending a long dispute over proposed construction of a 34-mile road through Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Swain County, NC. The federal government agreed to build the road in 1943 but never completed the project.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service will distribute $150 million to local communities through the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) grant program. The program, established in 2014, enables urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors in economically underserved communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program continues its substantial contributions to recreational boaters and local communities and their economies through this year’s award of $20.6 million in grants to states and U.S. territories. By providing funding ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY – Today, at the Western Conservation and Hunting Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed Secretarial Order 3362, which will improve habitat quality and western big game winter range and migration corridors for antelope, elk, and mule deer. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Thursday, April 1 2010 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will visit an offshore energy services company in Harvey, Louisiana to underscore job creation as a major goal of President Obama's proposed Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas development strategy. The Secretary's visit follows up on the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Joe Balash and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that BOEM will 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: Published by: The Washington Times . By: Interior Secretary David L. Bernhardt. . Just as energy independence is fundamental to our nation’s security, reducing our dependence upon foreign countries for critical minerals is vital to our nation’s long-term interests. Prior to the Trump Administration, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On Friday, April 1, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will make her first official visit to Puerto Rico where she will highlight the economic benefits of tourism to the Commonwealth and make an important announcement benefitting San Juan youth.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt released the Department of the Interior’s Economic Report for Fiscal Year 2019, highlighting the Department’s economic contributions that arise from managing Federal lands and waters and making investments that conserve and restore ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MILWAUKEE, WISC - Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor made a special visit to Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin today to learn more about the importance of the federally protected Horicon Marsh and the neighboring state lands and waters.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn today released a final rule to reform the regulatory process by which the Department of the Interior officially recognizes Indian tribes. The updated rule promotes a more transparent, timely ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Department of The Interior in cooperation with other Federal, State and Tribal co-trustees has settled claims for environmental damage settlement with ASARCO LLC, a North American mining conglomerate, which will provide about $194 million for the recovery of wildlife, habitat and other natural resources managed by Interior, state, and tribal governments at more than a dozen sites around the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today held the nation’s fifth competitive lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters, which offered nearly 344,000 acres offshore New Jersey for potential wind energy development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Department of the Interior spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff released the following statement today regarding Secretary Salazar's visit to Nevada this weekend:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As directed by Congress in the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today concluded a four-year analysis, and issued a decision supporting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's preferred alternative to decline a proposed land exchange with the State of Alaska and prevent construction of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, which was first established in the 1960s.
