News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As momentum continues with the success of Interior Department’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor announced today that the Department has signed agreements with three additional tribes to guide implementation – the Bad River Band ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Following on a memo recently issued by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Interior Department agencies have begun collaborative work with local communities, Members of Congress, tribes, and other partners to enhance conservation and recreation opportunities on Interior-managed lands in Washington's San Juan Islands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today asked the Department of Justice to seek clarification from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the scope of its April 17, 2009 decision that Bush Administration officials did not conduct sufficient scientific and environmental analysis before scheduling oil and gas lease sales on the Outer Continental Shelf off Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt was on the road again, conducting site inspections at National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges. The Secretary met with park superintendents and refuge managers to see firsthand how they are safely restoring access to America’s ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. – As part of President Obama’s goal of placing half a million acres of tribal homelands into trust for the benefit of tribal nations, U.S. Secretary of the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Originally Published by: The Colorado Springs Gazette
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior will host four listening sessions in Arizona during the week of May 15th where members of the public; local, state, and tribal elected officials; and other stakeholders can express their views on the future of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA– During a town hall with local tourism and business leaders in Philadelphia, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar emphasized the importance of international tourism to economic growth and job creation. The visit coincided with the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Education, Scientific ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Furthering President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that 122,405 acres offshore Kitty Hawk, North Carolina will be offered in a commercial wind lease sale on March 16, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor will visit the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) to meet with leaders of the federal interagency fire leadership team and receive briefings on the current fire situation, increasing costs of wildland fire and the challenges presented by a changing climate and evolving fire environment. News media availability with Deputy Secretary Connor will be held at 1 p.m. MST.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced the appointment of Greg Sheehan to the newly-created position of Deputy Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Prior to his appointment, Sheehan served as Director of the Utah Division of Wildlife Service. Sheehan has more than 25 years of experience with the State of Utah working in wildlife and natural resource management.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WINDOW ROCK, AZ – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told Navajo Nation officials today that President Obama's major goals for working with Indian Country include improving educational opportunities for American Indian children, strengthening law enforcement and advancing self-sustaining economic development for tribal communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GIBBON, NE -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today toured portions of the Rainwater Basin and the Platte River that serve as vital stopover areas for millions of migrating birds, including a wet meadow restoration project at Rowe Sanctuary that will provide habitat for the sandhill crane and other wildlife.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PAGE, Ariz. – Today, at a ceremony on the crest of Glen Canyon Dam, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined other officials and dignitaries to kick off a celebration marking the 50th anniversary of power generation at Glen Canyon Dam.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt commended President Donald Trump and President Sauli Niinistӧ of the Republic of Finland for securing an agreement to return American Indian ancestral remains and funerary objects from Finland to the U.S. taken over a century ago from the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. -- To advance the ongoing natural resource restoration planning process following the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA and the Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced plans to develop a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) in cooperation with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: OCALA, Fla. -Devonne L. Walker (36, Lady Lake) was sentenced in federal court today to 25 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: CARVER'S GAP, NC – On Wednesday, August 6, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Senator Richard Burr, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Butch Blazer and state and local officials to highlight the positive economic impacts and conservation successes of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the natural and recreational heritage of the Southern Appalachians area.
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 country are receiving a total of $436.9 million under the 2014 Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Western Governors' Association in Park City, Utah, on Friday, June 28. Secretary Jewell will discuss Interior's balanced management of public lands and underscore the economic importance of activities ...
