News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a national media teleconference to announce the 2010 “State of the Birds Report,” which this year focuses on the effects of climate change on migratory bird populations in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Next week, state, federal, tribal and local officials, along with representatives of private sector and environmental groups, will kick-off a week of events, briefings, and workshops to discuss international, national and regional invasive species issues as part of this year's National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb. 26 – Mar. 3, 2012). The week's events, coordinated by the National Invasive Species Council, are open to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – After a mild winter and low precipitation levels in many parts of the nation, the risk of wildland fire this season poses a challenge for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture which, together, respond to more than 20,000 wildfires per year. Wildland fires today ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BIG PINE KEY, Fl. – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured the Florida Keys by air, boat and on foot on Saturday, focusing on the four national wildlife refuges and 30 federally endangered and threatened species managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to requests from the Native Hawaiian community, Hawaii's congressional delegation and state leaders, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced today a first step to consider reestablishing a government-to-government relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian community.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - “President Trump’s 2020 budget request is an effort to restore fiscal sanity in Washington. In doing so, the Department of the Interior’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget request strikes a reasonable balance and includes several important legislative proposals to address longstanding problems like the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spent day three of a four-day trip throughout New England by meeting with a variety of stakeholders in Maine, following yesterday’s tour of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis this week in representing the United States at the 2014 International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2014 World Parks Congress , a global forum on protected areas held once every decade.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe, entertainer CeeLo Green, and hundreds of volunteers at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site to celebrate the 20th annual National Public Lands Day. Nationwide, ...
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 proposes to offer 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for August 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: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that the Civil War Trust has been selected as the nonprofit partner that will serve as Administrative Secretariat for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced today a review of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures for the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the bureau in DOI that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS). The review will examine the MMS NEPA procedures for OCS oil and gas exploration and development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Friday, April 2, 2010, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will announce new jobs figures for the nation and the state at a press conference at the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond. Salazar will also highlight the impact of economic recovery ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that he has directed the National Park Service to undertake an Asian American Pacific Islander Theme Study to investigate the stories, places and people of Asian American and Pacific Island heritage.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DENVER, Colo. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in Denver, Colorado, today to discuss the worsening drought conditions in the West and highlight the Department of the Interior’s efforts to support farmers, Tribes, and communities impacted by ongoing water shortages. Secretary Haaland, Governor Jared Polis, Rep. Diana DeGette, and other local, state, and federal leaders discussed the ongoing drought during a roundtable at the Denver Water Center.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NAPLES, FL - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined federal and state officials to break ground on the Picayune Strand habitat restoration project/Faka Union Canal pump station, a major component of the overall Picayune Strand project that will boost Florida's economy while restoring historic water ...
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 today announced that region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 252 generated $244,299,344 in high bids for 227 tracts covering 1,261,133 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A total of 30 companies participated in the lease sale, submitting $283,782,480 in all bids.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior released the following statement today regarding a data breach within the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA):
