News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the federal government has completed numerous peer-reviewed scientific and technical studies providing new and detailed information about the environmental and economic impacts of removing four Klamath River hydroelectric dams ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BERKELEY, CA – On Thursday, March 26, 2015, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will discuss the future of the National Park Service and the importance of connecting young adults to America's public lands as part of the University of California at Berkeley's annual Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation. Albright was a key supporter of the creation of the National Park System and the second director of the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Interior Department veteran Douglas William Domenech as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Politico. Last week, I announced the next steps in the Obama administration's strategy for expanding safe and responsible oil and gas development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf to help power our economy while reducing our dependence on foreign oil. . Our strategy makes more than 75 percent of undiscovered ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MONROE AND TRENTON, MI-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Congressman John Dingell were in Michigan today to announce land acquisitions intended to preserve the country's newest National Park System unit, River Raisin National Battlefield Park, and enhance the first international Wildlife Refuge in North America, the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC – The Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today unveiled a work plan that will allow the agency to focus its resources on the species most in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the Navajo Nation regarding the U.S. government's management of funds and natural resources that it holds in trust for the Navajo Nation. The settlement resolves ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced that BOEM will offer 38 million acres in ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. and Mexico, D.F.--In conjunction with the North American Leaders Summit held in Guadalajara, Mexico, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Mexican Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Juan Elvira announced today their commitment to strengthen conservation along the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt, as chair of President Donald J. Trump’s Interagency Task Force for Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes (Interagency Task Force), announced the designation of Charles “Chuck” Laudner as the Executive Director of the Task Force.
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 Wilma Lewis, a former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and Inspector General at Interior, as Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a Request for Information on People’s Republic of China (PRC) policies and influence in the development of international standards for emerging technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy Beaudreau today announced the release of a proposed final offshore ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich today announced that the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee (OESC) will hold its first public meeting on Monday, April 18, 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, at an event with members of Indiana's Congressional delegation, and representatives from America's outdoor recreation industry, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced his intent to create a new advisory committee that will focus on expanding public-private partnerships ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will kick off a nearly week-long trip around the Arctic Circle, beginning with a CODEL to Norway, Greenland and Alaska led by Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and continuing through several Interior holdings through the holiday weekend and into the following week.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced today that the Miccosukee Indian School (MIS) has received flexibility from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), to use a different definition ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined community, tribal, and federal leaders to celebrate the establishment of the Río Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico, protecting the natural and historic treasures of the area while supporting local economies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced his decision to protect the iconic Grand Canyon and its vital watershed from the potential adverse effects of additional uranium and other hardrock mining on over 1 million acres of federal land for the next 20 years.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved the second large-scale solar energy project ever on U.S. public lands in Nevada. When completed, the Amargosa Farm Road Solar Project, an initiative of Solar Millennium LLC, will be a 500-megawatt facility that provides electricity to about 150,000 homes and creates 1,300 construction jobs and up to 200 permanent operation jobs.
