News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, VA-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined volunteer and youth groups at Shenandoah National Park as part of a national kickoff for President Obama's new “United We Serve” campaign. The Secretary helped the groups remove nonnative plants that have invaded the natural ecosystem adjacent to Big Meadows Swamp.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On the heels of a meeting of the American Latino Scholars Expert Panel and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced $500,000 in matching grants to help fund 13 projects across the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland joined Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Senator Tim Kaine, Norfolk and local elected officials, and representatives of the offshore wind industry in Norfolk today to discuss opportunities that will create jobs and strengthen the local economy. This announcement reflects the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to develop 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy by 2030, which will create an estimated 80,000 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tracy Stone-Manning was ceremonially sworn in today as Director of the Bureau of Land Management by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk will be leaving the Department of the Interior after nearly 3 years of leadership. Echo Hawk, an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, will resign his position effective April 27, 2012 to assume a leadership position in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior and other federal departments today released their 2012 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans. The sustainability plans continue the Obama Administration's commitment to lead by example and cut waste, pollution, and costs in federal operations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined Republic of Kiribati President Anote Tong to sign a Cooperative Arrangement to coordinate and jointly support research and conservation activities for nearly 490,000 square nautical miles in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (Monument) in the United States and the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in Kiribati.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: VERO BEACH, FL-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the upcoming release of the America's Great Outdoors: 50-State Report that will outline specific and promising ways to reconnect Americans to the outdoors and promote the creation of jobs in tourism and outdoor recreation in every state ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released a final rule adding four foreign companies to the Entity List for engaging in activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. The four entities are located in Israel, Russia, and Singapore.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASAHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Tony Babauta expressed their deepest sympathies to the Governor and people of American Samoa following an earthquake and tsunami surges that have hit the U.S. Pacific Territory.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Cape Wind Associates, LLC today signed the nation's first lease for commercial wind energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
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 Missouri. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $21.2 million in Missouri 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, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today presented a Partners in Conservation Award to the Apache Trout Habitat Restoration project for their work on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, Aug. 11, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will attend a public meeting in Santa Fe, NM hosted by the Energy Department's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis to receive stakeholder input to the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), an administration-wide effort to make recommendations regarding key infrastructure needed for transmission, storage and distribution of energy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to strengthen the government-to-government relationship with tribal nations and fulfill federal trust obligations, on Friday, Sept. 26, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Public lands are some of the best outdoor classrooms in the world. But thanks to their websites, they can be some of the best online classrooms, too. At Interior, our experts at national parks, wildlife refuges, recreation areas, historic sites and research offices across the country, are working to ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON –In response to President Trump’s strategy to enhance broadband access in rural America, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) launched a new effort today designed to increase broadband internet access on federally-managed lands. The report and accompanying website provide information ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes announced that a new geospatial website, “ChangeMatters,” has made the Department of the Interior's satellite imagery of the world more easily accessible to the public.
