News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: CAMBRIA, Calif. – On Friday, Sept. 16, Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze will join Representative Lois Capps and California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird, as well as other federal, state, local and tribal officials, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – “Let's Move Outside, Junior Rangers!” is First Lady Michelle Obama's call to kids across the country. Today, 16 national parks – for a total of 36 nationwide – launch Let's Move Outside Junior Ranger. National Park Junior Rangers will not only have fun and get exercise but also receive an extra reward for working up a sweat. So far this summer, thousands of kids have earned the title while discovering that exercise doesn't equal drudgery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LOS ANGELES, CA – On Monday, March 10, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to announce a partnership that will help connect urban youth in the Los Angeles area to the outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC: The U.S. Department of the Interior today issued a directive to oil and gas lessees and operators on the Outer Continental Shelf notifying them of requirements under the six month deepwater drilling moratorium that Secretary Salazar has ordered.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl, and California Governor Gavin Newsom today announced an agreement to advance areas for offshore wind off the northern and central coasts of California. This significant milestone is part of the Biden-Harris administration’s goal to create thousands of jobs through the deployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved a transmission line, access road and substation on public lands that will connect a 150-megawatt solar energy project to the power grid in California. The proposed project, Rice Solar Energy Project, will be built on private land in ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Brenda Burman as the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner. She is the first woman to ever lead the Bureau.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the Department of the Interior today released its plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for climate change impacts such as flooding, sea level rise, severe weather and temperature extremes.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – On Thursday, May 5, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Department of Agriculture San Bernardino National Forest Supervisor Jody Noiron, U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz, state and local officials and community leaders to celebrate the designation of Sand to ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the National Park Service (NPS) today has released for public review the Draft San Gabriel Watershed and Mountains Special Resource Study and Environmental Assessment. The Congressionally-authorized study is to determine whether all or part of the study area in California is significant, suitable, and feasible for designation as a unit of the national park system.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LAKEVIEW, Ore. – On Thursday, Sept. 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Deputy Director Steve Ellis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Jim Lyons, and other Oregon/Washington BLM officials in Lake County, Oregon, to tour innovative ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report released today by the Department of the Interior's Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor finds that projected changes in temperature and precipitation, combined with a growing population, will have significant impacts on water supplies, water quality, fish and wildlife habitats, ecosystems, hydropower, recreation and flood control, in California's Central Valley this century.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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 Louisiana that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Director Michael R. Bromwich today announced they will require oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico to set permanent plugs in nearly 3,500 nonproducing wells that ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Congressman Ciro Rodriguez today highlighted more than $10.4 million in projects that are creating jobs at Big Bend National Park under President Obama's economic recovery plan.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Contact: Kendra Barkoff, DOI (202) 208-6416
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer announced today that four Federal land-management agencies are in the process of acquiring 12 pieces of property in seven Western states with $4.7 million from a special land conservation fund.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced the completion of the nation’s seventh competitive lease sale for renewable wind energy in federal waters. A Wind Energy Area of 122,405 acres offshore Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received the high bid of $9,066,650 from Avangrid Renewables, LLC, the provisional winner.
