News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The California Desert District has lifted seasonal fire restrictions, effective immediately, to allow campfires and target shooting on BLM-managed public lands in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, southern Inyo, eastern Mono, San Diego, and eastern Kern counties.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – On Thursday, Sept. 10, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will give remarks at the opening of the new Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join the Student Conservation Association (SCA), the national leader in building the next generation of environmental stewards, and AmeriCorps to commemorate September 11th as a national day of service and remembrance with an afternoon of shoreline restoration at Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary in Arlington.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Wednesday with the U.S. Department of the Interior regarding environmental stewardship measures related to the construction of border security infrastructure.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Commerce Secretary John Bryson and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced the Administration's National Tourism and Travel Strategy – delivering on President Obama's call in January for a national strategy to promote domestic and international travel opportunities throughout the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, July 27, 2017, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will travel to New Mexico as part of the April 26, 2017 executive order to review select national monuments. Secretary Zinke will tour the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument by air, car and foot. He will meet ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued the following statement regarding the death yesterday of Brian O'Neill, longtime superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the San Francisco Bay area of California.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Department of the Interior has scheduled 38 oil and natural gas lease sales for U.S. public lands in 2010, including a sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the first in nearly two years.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WHITEWATER, Calif. – On Tuesday, Oct. 13, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor and U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released the following statement regarding the proposal in the House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
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 a coalition of individuals and agencies who worked collaboratively with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Chickasaw Nation to protect valuable aquifer resources and to improve water resource conditions in Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC – The Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it is proposing to delist biologically recovered gray wolf populations in the Western Great Lakes, and – in accordance with recently enacted legislation – reinstating the Service's 2009 decision to delist biologically recovered gray wolf populations in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BALTIMORE, MD - As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today joined Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley to announce the proposed notice of sale for nearly 80,000 acres offshore Maryland for commercial wind energy leasing.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today proposed the concept of establishing an “Ocean Energy Safety Institute” designed to facilitate research and development, training, and implementation in the areas of offshore drilling safety, blowout containment and oil spill response.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today commended the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Natural Resource Trustees for approving the Early Restoration Phase III Plan for 44 early restoration projects across Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, including restoration projects at Breton National Wildlife Refuge and Gulf Islands National Seashore.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shell Oil Company, Shell Offshore Inc., Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc., and Shell Western Exploration and Production (Shell Defendants) have agreed to pay the United States $2.2 million plus interest to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from Federal leases, the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Andrew Logan, of Dundalk, Maryland, has admitted to his role in a firearms trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - On May 11, 2010 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar asked the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct an independent and science-based investigation of the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Today, the NAE-NRC review committee released its interim report.
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 first projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – $140 million that will fund 308 U.S. Geological Survey projects across the 50 states. The USGS, the leading science research ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Lakewood, Colo. – The Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area is kicking off BLM Colorado's first American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project. The BLM Colorado State Office awarded $60,000 in ARRA funding to the Colorado Youth Corps Association to conduct trail maintenance, construction, and restoration ...
