News published on Federal Newswire in November 2021

News from November 2021


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today hosted a Clean Energy Economy Forum with stakeholders from 39 states across the country at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.


News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of the Interior held a Reclaiming our Native Communities Roundtable in Nome, Alaska and a Public Safety Listening Session in Bethel, Alaska this week to discuss ways to address public safety challenges in the region. These listening ...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released a first-of-its-kind report showing that Department of the Interior programs and activities support more than 1.4 million American jobs and more than $370 billion in economic activity across the country.


News Release: JACKSON, Wyo. – Representing an important step for Grand Teton National Park, its philanthropic partners, and the State of Wyoming, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Wyoming Governor Matt Mead today announced an agreement to allow for the purchase and permanent protection of two State school land parcels located within the park.


News Release: Cross posted from WhiteHouse.gov . All morning the White House and Department of the Interior will be hosting the America's Great Outdoors Conference, addressing the challenges, opportunities and innovations surrounding modern-day land conservation and the importance of reconnecting Americans and American ...


News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Departments of the Army, the Interior, and Justice today invited representatives from all 567 federally recognized tribes to participate in formal, government-to-government consultations on how Federal decision-making on infrastructure projects can better allow for timely and meaningful ...


Release: COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – On Wednesday, Sept. 21, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will convene local leaders, stakeholders, and industry representatives at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge for a roundtable discussion on collaborative ...


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 Delaware. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $289,000 in Delaware as part of the recovery plan signed ...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama's announcement that he intends to nominate Sam D. Hamilton to be the next Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hamilton, a career senior biologist and manager with the Service, currently is director of the agency's Southeast Region, The nomination requires Senate confirmation.



News Release: CLARK COUNTY, Nev. – As part of President Obama’s commitment to build strong, sustainable tribal communities and the Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, ...


News Release: GOLDEN, CO – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today visited the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) campus in Golden, Colorado where he toured the 327-acre campus' state-of-the-art facilities and met with scientists regarding ongoing research on the development, commercialization and deployment of renewable energy.


News Release: WASHINGTON – Advancing the Obama Administration's commitment to rapid and responsible development of large-scale renewable energy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the approval of four new projects on public lands, the launch of environmental reviews on three others, and the next step in a comprehensive environmental analysis to identify ‘solar energy zones' on public lands in six western states.


News Release: Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Department of the Interior Press Secretary Kendra Barkoff:


News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has cancelled an oil and gas lease in the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest in northwest Montana. The lease, currently held by Solonex LLC, was issued by the BLM in 1982.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a GOP Leadership press conference today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks about how President Joe Biden’s energy crisis will get worse under the tax and spending spree.


News Release: WASHINGTON -- As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the McCoy Solar Energy Project, a proposed 750-megawatt facility in Riverside County that would be one of the largest solar energy projects on public lands in the California desert.


Release: TRIANGLE, Va. – As part of National Park Week, on Thursday, April 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis at Prince William Forest Park, the largest green space in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, to meet with students and to hold a stakeholder meeting on ways to better connect youth and families to the outdoors.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of South Dakota that will be included in the final report - ...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of the Interior has selected Niche Technology Inc.'s Records Management System to implement Interior's nationwide, integrated law enforcement and security information and records management system, creating one of the largest geographic law enforcement data sharing deployments in the world.