News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Postmaster General John Potter will celebrate National Park Week by releasing the first official copies of a new book, The Grandest Things: Our National Parks in Words, Images, and Stamps, which explores the history and beauty of our national park system through breathtaking images and historic stamps.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today presented a Partners in Conservation Award to five employees in the National Park Service's offices in Omaha, Nebraska, and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia for their work in creating the “Making Friends” Guidebook. The handbook gives tips for creating, growing and managing one of the Friends Groups set up to help local national parks.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas today welcomed 50 new U.S. citizens representing 29 countries at a naturalization ceremony in Washington, DC. This was the capstone ceremony of USCIS' annual celebration surrounding Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (Sept. 17th).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, Secretary Ken Salazar will join Governor Kulongoski, Tribal leaders, and local stakeholders to announce the signing of two historic agreements: the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement. Together, these final agreements ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Monday, April 19, 2010, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will address about 150 higher education stakeholders and college presidents attending the 15th Annual National Capitol Forum on Hispanic Higher Education at 12 p.m. at the Madison Hotel in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – While the Interior Department's bureaus and offices were engaged in a full and coordinated response to last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Nation's principal federal conservation agency also significantly improved its overall performance, according to a fiscal year 2010 financial and performance report.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama today announced the Administration's action plan, under the America's Great Outdoors initiative, to achieve lasting conservation of the outdoor spaces that power our nation's economy, shape our culture, and build our outdoor traditions. This initiative seeks ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior will immediately deploy 29 experienced wildland firefighters to Australia to help battle raging wildfires in Victoria State, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today. The Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service also is sending about 31 wildland firefighters as part of the United States assistance.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today honored four government and tribal employees with the annual Secretary of the Interior Historic Preservation Awards, recognizing their outstanding contributions to the preservation of historic places and artifacts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: As part of President Obama's comprehensive energy plan for the country, the Department of the Interior is pursuing a balanced, science-based strategy for exploring and developing oil and gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced Paul Daniel (Dan) Smith as a new Deputy Director of the National Park Service (NPS). Smith brings nearly four decades of public service experience, including serving as superintendent of Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia, to this important leadership role.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - More than 45 years after gray wolves were first listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Trump Administration and its many conservation partners are announcing the successful recovery of the gray wolf and its delisting from the ESA. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GALLIANO, La.- Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today visited Louisiana to inspect the ongoing, unprecedented federal response to the BP oil spill-accompanied by a bipartisan Senate delegation including ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: O‘AHU, HI – On Tuesday, March 31, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Hawaii Governor David Ige, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, state and local officials, Monsanto representatives and community leaders to dedicate the Honouliuli National Monument, the site of the largest internment camp in Hawai'i for Japanese and European Americans and others during World War II.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released the following statement on the passing of Billy Frank, Jr., a member of the Nisqually Indian Tribe and Chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: KLAMATH, Calif. - The U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Commerce, PacificCorp, and the states of Oregon and California today signed an agreement that, following a process administered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), is expected to remove four dams on the Klamath River by 2020, amounting to one of the largest river restoration efforts in the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) has initiated the next step in the proposed revitalization of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and remains on track to have the project completed in time for the 50th anniversary of completion of the Gateway Arch in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar released the following statement on the Obama Administration's actions to deal with the California Water Crisis:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DICKINSON, N.D. – Underscoring the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy and comprehensive Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell concluded her two-day trip to North Dakota today by praising federal, state and local partnerships that are facilitating safe and responsible oil and gas development in the Bakken Formation.
