News from November 2021
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: FORT MYERS, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Manhattan Construction Florida Inc. to promote worker safety and health at the Southwest Florida International Airport expansion project in Fort Myers. The University of South Florida On-site Safety and Health Consultation Program is also a partner in the effort.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Bureau of Land Management Director Robert Abbey announced today that he will retire from public service at the end of May to rejoin his family full-time in Mississippi. Appointed by President Obama in 2009, Director Abbey's three-year tenure in leadership of the nation's largest land management agency marks the culmination of a 34 year career of state and federal service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PUEBLO, Colo. – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt was in Pueblo, Colorado, to officially mark the groundbreaking for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit (AVC) Project at Pueblo Dam. When completed, the project will convey clean water from Pueblo Reservoir via 230 miles of pipelines to 40 communities and a projected future population of 50,000 people in Southeastern Colorado.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the State of Colorado that will allow Rocky Mountain National Park to re-open and temporarily operate during the government shutdown.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. – On Sunday, Sept. 11, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver remarks at the Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center honoring the 40 passengers ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SAGINAW, MI – Continuing the Trump Administration’s unprecedented efforts to increase recreational access on public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced today at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge the historic opening and expansion of over 850 hunting and fishing opportunities ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SEATTLE – On Monday, July 18, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and U.S. Representative Dave Reichert at Gas Works Park on the north shore of Lake Union in Seattle, Wash. to highlight the important contributions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund in ...
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 Illinois that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold an All-Employee Town Hall in the Yates Auditorium of the Main Interior Building from 2:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Credentialed media are invited to attend. The event also will broadcast by satellite uplink and a listen only teleconference is available by dialing 1-800-475-0527 and speaking the passwords FIRST YEAR.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Blackfeet Nation Chairman Harry Barnes today signed documents implementing the Blackfeet Water Rights Settlement of 2016 and the accompanying Blackfeet Water Compact, which resolve a decades-long battle by the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana to protect ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA-- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich today visited Tulane University in Louisiana, toured a deepwater drilling facility, and discussed Interior's ongoing efforts to promote safe and balanced development of our nation's offshore oil and gas resources.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to confirm Lanny Erdos as Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). Mr. Erdos has served as the Principal Deputy Director exercising the delegated authority of the Director of the OSMRE since 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Furthering 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 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper today announced the completion ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: GUAM AND SAIPAN – From September 19-24, 2016, the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force will join the governors of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), and top federal and state leaders ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today hosted a meeting with Governors and representatives of Atlantic Coast states to discuss a regional approach to wind energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). In attendance were Governor John Baldacci (Maine), Governor Donald ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: BOISE, IDAHO – As part of a comprehensive, science-based strategy to address the threat of wildfires that are damaging landscapes across the West, the Department of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, as directed by the President via the March 13th executive order outlining a reorganization of the executive branch of the federal government, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, issued further guidance on the executive branch reorganization. The “Comprehensive ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BURLINGTON, VT - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy in Vermont to highlight the contributions of outdoor recreation to the state's economy and to examine the progress of several priority conservation initiatives under way, including sea lamprey control efforts in Lake Champlain.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: A message from David J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Interior
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Houma, LA - At a meeting today with representatives of the oil and gas industry, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Assistant Secretary Tom Strickland, and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich discussed the implementation of reforms that are raising the bar for safety and environmental protection in oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).