News published on Federal Newswire in November 2021

News from November 2021


News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A major law enforcement operation targeting drug trafficking in and around Indian Country in North Carolina has resulted in the arrest of more than 75 individuals on federal, state and tribal charges, announced U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney ...


Release: MILLINOCKET, MAINE – On the heels of the National Park Service Centennial, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join community members and stakeholders on Sunday, August 28th to participate in a public celebration and dedication ceremony to commemorate the designation of Katahdin Woods and ...


News Release: Contact: Clark Stevens (DHS), 202-282-8010. Kendra Barkoff (DOI), 202-208-6416. WASHINGTON-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Interior (DOI) Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu ...


News Release: BASKING RIDGE, NJ. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today celebrated the 50th Anniversary of two landmark conservation laws - The Wilderness Act and The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act - at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey.


News Release: WASHINGTON – In stark contrast to the 14 recommendations issued in 2016 to the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) issued no findings or recommendations for Interior’s ethics program. This is the first time in the Department’s history that it has received such a report after a Program Review by the OGE.


News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the first step to support wind energy development in federal waters offshore Hawaii, by issuing a call for information and nominations to gauge the wind industry’s interest in commercial wind leases in two areas offshore Oahu.


Release: WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Oct. 27, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will visit Alabama at the invitation of U.S. Congresswoman Terri Sewell, Birmingham Mayor William Bell and Anniston Mayor Vaughn Stewart to hear public comments on proposals for additions to the National Park System in Birmingham and Anniston.


News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced that an additional $7.9 million has been transferred to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund (Scholarship Fund), bringing the total amount contributed so far to more than $47 million. The Scholarship Fund – funded in part by the Land Buy-Back ...


News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the appointments of 19 individuals to the Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council, an advisory panel created in 1993 to advise the Secretary on nationally significant recreational fishing, boating and aquatic resource conservation issues. The announcement was made on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. at the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation reception for members of Congress.


News Release: WASHINGTON - In his latest effort to increase access to hunting and fishing on public lands and waters, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced a proposal to open or expand opportunities at 10 national wildlife refuges. If finalized, this would bring the number of refuges where the public may hunt up to 373, and up to 312 where fishing would be permitted.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Dan Wenk, Acting Director of National Park Service released the following statement today updating the progress over the Flight 93 Memorial lands:


News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. – Thanks to a highly successful public-private partnership spanning more than two decades, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove the Louisiana black bear – the inspiration for the “Teddy Bear” – from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).


News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Ryan Zinke (pronounced Zink-EE) was confirmed and sworn in as the 52nd Secretary of the Interior. The Senate voted 68-31 to confirm Zinke the morning of March 1, 2017, and he was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence at a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building later that evening. Zinke is the first Montanan to serve as a cabinet secretary and also the first U.S. Navy SEAL in the cabinet.


News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a talented young artist from Duffield, Va., took top honors at the National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest. A pair of trumpeter swans painted by 12-year-old Isaac Schreiber will grace the 2017-2018 Junior Duck Stamp, which raises funds to educate and engage our nation’s youth in wildlife and wetlands conservation, and outdoor recreation.


Release: PHOENIX, AZ – On Saturday, August 9, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Congressman Ed Pastor, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a member of the bipartisan coalition Mayors for Parks , and state and local officials at South Mountain Park to highlight the positive economic impacts and conservation successes of the Land and Water Conservation Fund for urban parks, outdoor recreation and healthy economies in communities across the country.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor today announced that the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation in Washington State has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Tribe joins nearly 20 other tribal nations in signing agreements with the Department to actively participate in the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program).


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Vincent G. Logan to serve as Special Trustee for American Indians:


Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to ensure all students attending Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools receive a high quality, culturally appropriate education, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Indian Education Director Dr. Charles ‘Monty' Roessel will visit Choctaw Central High School near Philadelphia, Mississippi on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2014, to discuss ongoing Indian education reform initiatives.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the next federal oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico will occur in New Orleans on Aug. 18, 2010. The Secretary made the Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 215 announcement during a tour of Superior Energy Services.


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 Kentucky. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest more than $16.5 million in Kentucky as part of the recovery plan signed ...