News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, NV-First Lady Michelle Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Rhea Suh today launched the Administration's national Let's Move Outside! initiative to promote outdoor physical activity for children and families.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined members of Congress, state elected officials, and local business and community leaders in applauding the President’s designation of the Basin and Range National Monument on public lands in southeastern Nevada. This national monument ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the designation of four new National Historic Landmarks in four states, including a pre-Columbian flint quarry in North Dakota, a colonial-era Pennsylvania German house, and a 20th Century Oregon house of the Northwest Style.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) has withdrawn the final 2020 Valuation Reform and Civil Penalty Rule, a move that will restore balance to America’s public lands and waters and ensure that corporations are paying their fair ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s April 26, 2017, Executive Order (EO), U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke released the final report outlining recommendations he made to the President on some national monument designations under the Antiquities Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2022. The Department of the Interior’s 2022 budget proposal totals $17.6 billion - an increase of $2.5 billion, or 17 percent, from the 2021 enacted level. This significant investment will help the Department address the climate crisis while creating good-paying union jobs and investing in healthy lands, waters, and economies in communities across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the State of Arizona that will allow Grand Canyon National Park to re-open and temporarily operate during the government shutdown.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Senator Charles Schumer will hold a news conference call today to provide an update on the Statue of Liberty, which has been closed due to major damage sustained from Hurricane Sandy.
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 New York. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $63.4 million in New York as part of the recovery plan ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Trump Administration Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes (Task Force) held its second meeting.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: United States Senate - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced today that over 1,900 local governments around the country will receive $552.8 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding for 2018. This is the largest amount ever allocated in the program’s 40-year history. This continues to underscore the Trump Administration’s commitment to local communities. A full list of funding by state and county is available at www.doi.gov/pilt.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the members of the St. Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission. Founded by the Spanish in 1565, St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States. The secretarially-appointed members of the Commission will plan and carry out programs and activities to mark the 450th anniversary of the city's founding in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LOS ANGELES, Calif. – On Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Coca-Cola North America President Sandy Douglas at Marsh Park in Los Angeles to announce a major public-private partnership with The Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Coca-Cola Company, to support the Interior Department's ambitious youth initiative to inspire millions of young Americans to play, learn, serve and work in the great outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C. – Today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar praised President Barack Obama's signing of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 into law at the White House. The measure put into law the 26-million acre National Landscape Conservation System within the Bureau of Land Management and adds 2 million acres of new wilderness across the country. It will also preserve 1,000 new miles of wild and scenic rivers.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Boosted by an additional 4 million visitors in 2012, national parks across the country continued to be important economic engines, generating $26.75 billion in economic activity and supporting 243,000 jobs, according to a peer-reviewed report released today by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke released the following statement following President Donald J. Trump's speech in Ohio about rebuilding American infrastructure.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland praised the State of Florida's Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund vote to transfer approximately 29,000 acres of state-owned land within the Big Cypress National Preserve to the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary Bernhardt Celebrates 150th Anniversary of Golden Spike
