News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Good News: Conservation Efforts Work When Applied
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior and National Park Service announced additional details about the Independence Day celebrations on the National Mall, which will include multiple flight demonstrations from different branches of our military, in particular the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, and a monumental firework display.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Sunday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, announced the downlisting of Hawaii’s state bird, the nēnē at Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. After 60 years of effective collaborative conservation efforts among federal, state, local and nonprofit partners, the Hawaiian ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ENSLEY, Ala. – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt was joined by Naomi Ruth Barber King, who is the wife of Alfred Daniel (A.D.) King, Dr. Alveda King, who is the daughter of A.D. King, Omie Crockett, who is the owner of A.D. King home, Jacqueline Washington Crockett, who is the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1957, the Great American Outdoors Act, with a bipartisan vote, 310 to 107. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt issued the following statement following its passage:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. scientific teams charged with determining the oil discharge rate of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have completed a peer-reviewed report that assesses the methodologies to determine each technique's strengths and limitations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ESTES PARK, Colorado – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined members of the Colorado congressional delegation and local officials today to dedicate the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Area, nearly 250,000 acres within the park that will be permanently protected from human impacts under the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request of $13.4 billion for the Department of the Interior reflects the Administration’s commitment to investing in communities, building partnerships and using science and innovation to create economic opportunities and sustain our natural, cultural and historic resources for future generations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to promote domestic energy and mineral production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today issued a new Secretarial Order to facilitate the co-development of oil, natural gas and potash resources within the 500,000-acre Designated Potash Area (DPA) in southeast New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today commended the Department of the Interior's Blacks-in-Government (BIG) chapter for its community service and presented 10 recent high school graduates from the Washington, D.C area with college scholarships funded by BIG members.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On November 17 and 18, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to Arizona to highlight two initiatives that benefit Native American youth. Jewell will first visit Winslow Residential Hall, funded by the Department’s Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), to celebrate a recent ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ANTIOCH, CA -- On Monday, May 5, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will visit the site of the East Contra Costa County Habitat Conservation Plan, a locally-developed plan to protect and benefit 28 imperiled species in the area while also encouraging land use and economic development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MEXICO CITY – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, leading the U.S. delegation to the 2015 Ministerial Summit of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), today signed an ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told energy executives today that the President's comprehensive energy strategy seeks to responsibly develop all fronts and that North Dakota offers significant conventional and renewable resources that can help to reduce America's dependence on foreign energy while creating new jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On the heels of a White House Roundtable on Water Innovation, the U.S. Department of the Interior today launched a new, interactive website to show the dramatic effects of the 16-year drought in the Colorado River Basin. The specialized web tool, otherwise known as Drought in the Colorado ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to facilitating evidence-based decision-making in the Arctic, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes today announced two new efforts to further strengthen the role of science in resource management decisions regarding both onshore and offshore energy development activities in Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Joe Biden will sign an Executive Order today that will help restore balance on public lands and waters, create jobs, and provide a path to align the management of America’s public lands and waters with our nation’s climate, conservation, and clean energy goals.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-As the 2014 wildfire season approaches, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, and Council on Environmental Quality Acting Chair Mike Boots today released the Administration's National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. This strategy, developed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor today announced that the Department's Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program) has paid more than $225 million to individual American Indians for restoring the equivalent of 375,000 acres to tribal governments during the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the winning college and high school teams that designed and built the most efficient portable wind turbine systems as part of the 2010 Indian Education Renewable Energy Challenge with the Argonne National Laboratory. The awards were presented today at the Interior Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
