News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY – As part of the Interior Department’s leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Outside initiative to engage the next generation of outdoor stewards and inspire millions of young adults to experience the great outdoors, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON – The operators of three Houston-area Texas buffet BBQ restaurants that shortchanged its workers’ wages repeatedly by failing to pay them overtime when required has paid $40,043 in back wages to 179 workers, following a recent federal investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Tennessee that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a number of initiatives designed to encourage rapid and responsible development of renewable energy on public lands. The proposals from the Department's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the policy guidance from the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today praised President Obama's intent to nominate Neil G. Kornze as Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Kornze would head a bureau that manages more than 245 million acres of public land under a multiple-use and sustained yield mission.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUEQUE, N.M.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that a proposed 570-acre national wildlife refuge on a former dairy farm just a few miles south of New Mexico's largest metropolitan area has been approved. As proposed, the site will serve as an urban oasis for both wildlife and people.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: THREE RIVERS, CA – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is kicking-off National Park Week early from America’s second national park - Sequoia National Park - known for its sky-scraping giant redwood trees. The annual celebration of ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo met with Singapore Minister of Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong to discuss progress on the U.S.-Singapore Partnership for Growth and Innovation (PGI) and to outline next steps to produce concrete and commercially meaningful outcomes under the PGI, including the digital economy, supply chain resiliency for semiconductors, and other areas of collaboration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In support of President Donald Trump’s America-First Offshore Energy Strategy , the Department of the Interior (Department) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced a final rule to update air quality regulations for applicable BOEM activities in the Central and Western ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Iowa. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $3.7 million in Iowa as part of the recovery plan signed by the President to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st Century.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Maryland that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) today released final environmental reviews for proposed land use plans that will help conserve greater sage-grouse habitat and support sustainable economic development on portions of public lands in 10 states across ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: United States Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo and United States Trade Representative Katherine C. Tai released the following statements today upon agreement with the European Union to modify 232 steel and aluminum measures to allow the resumption of duty-free imports of European steel and aluminum into the United States in line with historical trade flows.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Leaders of the Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Reclamation hosted a meeting here today with multiple stakeholders to discuss the future of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a coal-fired electric powerplant located near Page, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved more than $26 million in grants to protect and restore more than 200,000 acres of wetland areas and wildlife habitat in the United States and Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: EUREKA, Calif. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory were in Eureka, Calif., today with U.S. Representative Jared Huffman, California Energy Commissioner Karen Douglas, Tribal leaders and community officials to discuss offshore wind opportunities that will create jobs and strengthen the local economy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Alaska that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the designation of 14 new national historic landmarks in 11 states and the District of Columbia that have played an integral role in the development of the country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: El CENTRO, Calif. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey today visited the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area and rode off-highway vehicles (OHV) in the California Desert to underscore President Obama's America's Great Outdoors, an initiative to promote and support partnerships with local communities to conserve open spaces and reconnect Americans to the outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the National Park Service (NPS) released a report detailing actions underway to address climate change threats to infrastructure, recreation, and natural and cultural resources. The report follows a recent study that revealed sea-level rise caused by climate change could pose a risk to more than $40 billion worth of national park assets and resources.
