News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded the announcement by President Obama that he intends to nominate Rhea S. Suh as Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at the Department of the Interior.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Four cabinet-level departments joined the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation today in signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to improve the protection of Indian sacred sites. The MOU also calls for improving tribal access to the sites. It was signed by cabinet secretaries from the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy and Interior. It was also signed by the chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the appointment of Shannon Estenoz to be the department's Director of Everglades Restoration Initiatives, his senior representative in South Florida for Everglades restoration.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled, “Industry and Labor Perspectives: A Further Look at North American Supply Chain Challenges."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Date: Dec. 20, 2018. Contacts: Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov. blm_press@blm.gov. ANCHORAGE – In furthering the Trump Administration’s goals of responsibly developing our natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Coastal ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today thanked the department's employees around the nation for their hard work and accomplishments during 2009, releasing a report on the major conservation, energy and land management initiatives and administrative reforms achieved in the past year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today announced an important step in the creation of a 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC), an organization called for in President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Report. Secretaries Salazar and ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BLYTHE, CA - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. today joined local officials and representatives from Solar Trust America at a ceremony launching the start of construction on what will be the world's largest solar power facility. Located on public lands ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today presented the Department of the Interior's 2013 Partners in Conservation Awards to 20 public-private partnerships that have achieved exemplary conservation results through cooperation and community engagement. Together, the 20 award-winning partnerships include recipients representing more than 260 organizations and individuals from across the United States and the world.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: AWENDAW, S.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today visited the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina where she met with stakeholders about their local efforts to conserve nearly 4,000 acres of longleaf pine habitat in the region.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a series of listening sessions on the federal coal program. The discussions will seek information from the public about how the BLM can best carry out its responsibility to ensure that American taxpayers receive a fair return on the coal resources managed by the federal government on their behalf.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded the confirmation of Michael L. Connor to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. The U.S. Senate confirmed Connor's nomination, which President Obama announced on July 30, 2013, by a vote of 97 to 0.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE – After receiving more than 400,000 public comments and following two days of meetings and visits with North Slope leaders, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today outlined a proposed plan that will allow for additional access for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Governors and Congressional representatives from each of the U.S. Insular Areas gathered in Washington this week to attend their annual meeting with senior-level federal officials to discuss issues of importance to American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S Virgin Islands.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GETTYSBURG, Pa -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the National Park Service has acquired 95 acres of the former Gettysburg Country Club property to preserve as part of the Gettysburg National Military Park. The former country club land - now known by its historic name, the Emanuel Harman Farm - is where major fighting occurred on the first day of battle on July 1, 1863.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper today announced that 79,350 acres offshore New York will be offered in a December 15 commercial wind lease sale.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today was joined by college football All-American and Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle to announce a new partnership that will introduce an innovative physical fitness and health program into Interior-funded American Indian schools.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: HONOLULU, HAWAIʻI – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will lead the United States delegation this week to the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress, a worldwide forum that meets every four years to set global priorities for environmental agreements, conservation and sustainable development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
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By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. – On Friday, May 23, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join the local community and other federal, state, tribal and local leaders to celebrate President Obama's designation today of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument.