News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to thank U.S. wildland firefighters for their assistance during recent devastating fires in the State of Victoria, Australia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Hilary Tompkins as Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, the agency's top general counsel.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - In support of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of installing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 , the Department of the Interior today announced a proposed sale for offshore wind development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) in the New York Bight – an area of shallow waters ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Monday, June 27, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and White House Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett will join federal, state and local officials and LGBT leaders to participate in a public dedication ceremony to commemorate the designation of Stonewall National Monument in New York City.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK, NY - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today was joined by Governors David Paterson, Jon Corzine, Senator Robert Menendez, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Congressmen Gregory Meeks and Anthony Weiner to celebrate the Fourth of July by welcoming the first visitors to tour the crown of the Statue ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced two actions that will expedite the transfer of eligible Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) facilities into local ownership and management: a new Categorical Exclusion and an update of Reclamation’s operating manual procedures to streamline the title transfer process.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke proposed to renew a mineral withdrawal in the Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Winter Range, southeast of Dubois, Wyoming, for an additional 20 years. The proposal follows Zinke's secretarial order to protect big game migration corridors ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As the country prepares to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Acting Director Michael T. Reynolds today applauded President Barack Obama’s designation of three new national monuments to recognize the nation’s journey from the Civil War to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has appointed a new Chair and Vice Chair and 14 new and continuing members to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), which provides recommendations to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the interagency executive group responsible for providing leadership and direction in federal geospatial programs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the selection of the University of Oklahoma to host the Department of the Interior's South Central Climate Science Center, joined by CSC consortium partners Texas Tech University, Louisiana State University, the Chickasaw Nation, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Interior Department veteran Douglas William Domenech as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas. Domenech was confirmed by the U.S. Senate yesterday and will be sworn-in in the coming days. President Trump nominated him in June.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Defendant Traveled to New York to Purchase Two Kilograms of Cocaine to Distribute in Maryland; Was Prohibited from Possessing a Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, FL. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and U.S. Representative John Mica to kick off the inaugural meeting of the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission. The commission is charged with planning and developing a suitable celebration in 2015 to honor the 450th anniversary of the founding of the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last week, the United States appealed the preliminary injunction entered by the district court in Louisiana v. Biden, which enjoined the Department of the Interior from implementing the pause in new federal oil and gas leasing as set forth in Section 208 of Executive Order 14008. The federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing program will continue as required by the district court while the government’s appeal is pending.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON , D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama's announcement that he intends to nominate Larry EchoHawk, a former Idaho Attorney General and state legislator, as Interior's Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. The nomination requires Senate confirmation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spent the last day of a four-day working trip throughout New England.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new year brings new opportunities to discover species, renovate museums, get kids outdoors to learn and to improve transportation in America's national parks. For the second year of its Centennial Challenge, the National Park Service will match federal funds with contributions from park ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today commended employees of the Office of Surface Mining for their efforts to improve oversight of state surface coal mining regulatory programs. The Secretary was joined at OSM headquarters by Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Wilma Lewis and OSM Director Joseph Pizarchik.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of the Interior announced today that over the next six months, the Bureau of Reclamation expects to release a projected additional 3.33 million acre-feet (maf) of water from Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona to Lake Mead in Nevada. This new projection, boosted by a significant ...
