News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that the Department would offer 75.9 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development. The region-wide lease sale scheduled for Aug. 16, 2017 would include all ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today offered keynote remarks at the ceremony honoring the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The ceremony at Gettysburg National Military Park was attended by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, Gettysburg ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Originally Published by: Fox News . By: Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Rob Wallace. No administration in history has recovered more imperiled species in their first term than the Trump Administration. This may come as a surprise to some given the lack of media attention on these success ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - To help ensure the safety of students, teachers and Tribal communities, the Department of the Interior announced today it will require staff and faculty at Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) facilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-As part of educating youth about the importance of America's Great Outdoors, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will participate in the D.C. Region's Teach for America Week 2010 by serving as a guest teacher at Bruce Monroe at Parkview Elementary School. Salazar will join Teach for America corps member Will Herman in his fourth grade classroom to discuss the importance of conservation and environmental stewardship.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Land Management would withdraw leases that were offered on 77 parcels of U.S. public land near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine Mile Canyon. The leases on these 77 parcels are the subject of litigation in U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told the annual Corps Network Forum that he has challenged the Interior bureaus to increase youth employment opportunities in 2010 by 50 percent over 2009 figures and in 2011 by 60 percent. This new challenge will give a big boost to youth employment and education programs throughout the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded $56.5 million to the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration's all of the above approach to American energy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today approved a 350-megawatt solar energy project on tribal trust land of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians (Tribe) in Clark County, Nevada. The project marks a milestone ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU – The owner of a Honolulu restaurant made earning a living difficult for its employees by allowing a manager to illegally keep a portion of workers’ tips and denying overtime pay to salaried cooks who worked an average of 55 hours a week, a recent federal investigation has found.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today signed a Secretarial Order establishing the America's Great Outdoors program in the Department of the Interior, formalizing the department's support for President Obama's landmark initiative to create a 21st century conservation and recreation ethic to reconnect Americans, especially young people, with the natural world.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TALLULAH, La. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that due to 24 years of dedicated recovery efforts by a broad array of partners, the Louisiana black bear-the inspiration for the teddy bear-will be removed from the Federal Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The species restoration is a significant conservation success and further demonstrates the value of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Feb. 20, 2020 . Contact: Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov & mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov. . Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt joined President Donald Trump and other federal officials in Bakersfield, California for the signing of a Presidential Memorandum supporting more water development ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice convened the first meeting of the White House Council on Native American Affairs in the Biden-Harris Administration. The Council will coordinate with Tribal Nations as it advances work on key issues such ...
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 South Dakota. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $200.5 million in South Dakota as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Interior Department today launched a five-year program of information technology modernization and consolidation that will save taxpayers an estimated $500 million by streamlining administration, cutting back on rented office space, reducing staff through attrition and other savings.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson will travel to the Gulf Coast on Friday at the request of President Obama to inspect ongoing operations ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Texas native Susan Combs to serve as the Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget. A rancher from Big Bend, Ms. Combs previously served in two Texas statewide offices as the state’s first female Agriculture Commissioner and then as the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts/Treasurer and chief financial officer.
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 Florida. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $28.7 million in Florida as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Bison reduction operations are now complete for 2021 on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. In total, 36 bison were removed through live capture and transfer, and five were removed lethally, reducing the impacts of the herd on the park’s water, vegetation, soils, and culturally significant sites and locations.