News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of the Interior today announced two important steps in the ongoing commitment to fulfilling this nation's trust responsibilities to Native Americans. Today, Interior announced the publication of a draft plan and a request for comment on implementing the potential Cobell ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- As part of President Obama's initiative to fuel the economy and create jobs by promoting travel and tourism, the administration today announced a new design, improved navigation tools and expanded content for Recreation.Gov, the interagency website that guides visitors to 90,000 sites on federal lands such as national parks, wildlife refuges, waterways, forests and recreation areas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TRACY, Calif. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar led a groundbreaking ceremony today for the Delta--Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie project, which will improve water supply reliability for locations south of the Delta when completed as expected by 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Recognizing that wildlife trafficking is an urgent conservation and national security threat, the U.S. Departments of the Interior, Justice and State today released the implementation plan for the U.S. National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking. The agencies are Co-Chairs of the President's Task Force on Combating Wildlife Trafficking which comprises seventeen federal agencies and offices.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today held the nation's fourth competitive lease sale for renewable energy in federal waters offshore Massachusetts for potential wind energy development. Developing offshore wind energy is part of President Obama's comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of the Interior unveiled improvements to the implementing regulations of the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith announced the selection of Cameron (Cam) Sholly to be the new Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – When managers at Denali National Park needed to protect nesting golden eagles from potential disturbance by hikers, they used an adaptive management approach that allowed them to monitor and adjust their strategies based on what they learned over the course of time about how well they were working.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 --Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be joined by other top Interior officials at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C. where he will sign a Secretarial Order providing a framework for a national strategy to provide sustainable water supplies, announce a departmental goal for increasing water supplies in the West, and discuss how the Administration's proposed FY 2011 budget supports this initiative.
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 two National Park Service employees and two employees of The Nature Conservancy for their conservation efforts in the Washington D.C. area and along the Potomac Gorge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: COPENHAGEN - Today, as he toured the Middelgrunden wind farm near Copenhagen Denmark, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) will establish a new regional office in 2010 to support renewable energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) off the Atlantic seaboard.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO, IL - Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin today announced the designation of 41 trails as National Recreation Trails, adding almost 650 miles of trails to the National Trails System. Spanning across 17 states, the land and water trails provide opportunities ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the co-trustees for natural resources affected by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill announced today they have started the injury assessment and restoration planning phase of the Natural Resource Damage ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today made the following statement regarding the passing of Richard Estrada Chavez yesterday:
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-An Albany, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for distributing heroin and methamphetamine in and around Linn County, Oregon.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced today that Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) disbursed $8.93 billion in Fiscal Year 2018 from energy production on federal and American Indian lands and offshore areas. That figure represents an increase of $1.82 billion over the previous year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today described the progress the Department of the Interior has made in the last six months to responsibly develop oil and gas resources on public lands as part of President Obama's comprehensive energy strategy for the United States. Since January, ...
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US State Department published a two page rule on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
