News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On the heels of a notification Monday from USDA to Congress of the need to transfer an additional $250 million to cover wildfire suppression costs for the remainder of the year, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – In recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LBGT) Pride Month , U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Henry Gerber House in Chicago, Illinois, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, becoming the nation's second LGBT related property ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BUENA VISTA, Colo. – On Saturday, July 18, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell will join the local community and other federal, state, tribal, and local leaders to celebrate President Obama’s designation of the Browns Canyon National Monument.
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 projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Wisconsin. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $28.6 million in Wisconsin as part of the recovery plan signed by the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes and Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that collaboration between the agencies is again providing funds to improve the efficiency of agricultural water use throughout the State of California.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and other Interior leaders will participate in a press teleconference this morning to release the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation – both located in the Williston Basin in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed the environmental analysis of the proposed Vineyard Wind I offshore wind project. This represents major progress in the Biden-Harris administration’s goal to accelerate responsible development of renewable energy on public lands and waters as a key component of tackling the climate crisis and creating jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the addition of one United States Army veteran and three United States Navy veterans to the Interior Department. The four veterans join Zinke's Chief of Staff, several senior appointees, and more than 11,000 veterans who are career ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BROWNING, MONT. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today traveled to the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana with U.S. Senator Jon Tester for a signing ceremony commemorating a new agreement with the Blackfeet Nation to implement the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NUUK, Greenland – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting, a high-level forum of eight nations and their Arctic indigenous peoples, has agreed to develop an Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) initiative for protecting the Arctic's environment and to negotiate measures for oil spill preparedness and response throughout the region.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. – The Department of the Interior today released a report that assesses the status of scientific information available to help understand the impacts of climate change and other stressors on U.S. freshwater resources and calls for modernization of systems to help monitor and sustain water supplies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today marked an important milestone to increase transparency and public trust in the governance of natural resource revenues with release of a new interactive data portal and the first annual U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (USEITI) Report.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today met with business leaders in Anchorage to discuss the need for safe and responsible development of Alaska's energy resources. Today's meetings are part of Secretary Salazar's multi-day visit to Alaska this week, where he is joined by U.S. Senators Mark Begich, Lisa Murkowski and Jack Reed. This marks Secretary Salazar's third trip to the 49th state since taking office in January 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released the following statement on the passing of Sam Hamilton, the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that onshore oil and gas lease sales conducted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2012 generated ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - While at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt signed a Secretary’s Order that waives entrance fees to national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands and waters managed by the Department of the Interior for 5th grade students and their families from now until Aug. 31, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Biden will take action tomorrow to restore protections to three national monuments that had been dismantled by the previous administration. The new proclamations will reestablish the boundaries in place before President Trump’s unprecedented action to drastically reduce the boundaries ...
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 projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Washington. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $206.9 million in Washington as part of the recovery plan signed by ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD – Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. – the country’s largest pork processor – has agreed to assemble a team of company and third-party experts to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that the company will implement at all of its processing facilities nationwide.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue hosted an inter-agency listening session with federal, congressional, and state stakeholders. Photos for media use are available here.
