News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.--“No matter where you are from, you can do anything if you believe in yourself,” Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (in hat) told 81 D.C. youth working at summer jobs in national parks and at other Department of the Interior sites today. The Secretary hosted the group ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has issued a 2009 Report detailing his first year leading the Department of the Interior. Speaking at a Town Hall assembly at the Department's headquarters and via satellite to thousands of employees around the nation, Salazar said of the report that the completion ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today reaffirmed their strong mutual resolve to moving forward with the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and reinforced their joint commitment to effective action to achieve the dual goals of a healthy San Francisco Bay Delta ecosystem and a reliable water supply for California.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a $227 million project to rehabilitate Arlington Memorial Bridge, a historic and critical transportation link in the nation’s capital. As awarded, the project will save American taxpayers $35 million and 1.5 years of estimated construction time.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -During a visit to Pennsylvania today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy discussed federal efforts to reclaim abandoned mine lands, which will help communities eliminate dangerous legacy pollution while creating good-paying union jobs and advancing environmental justice.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Department of the Interior veteran David Bernhardt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the Interior’s Deputy Secretary. He will be sworn-in in the coming days.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DINOSAUR, Colo.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today dedicated a new visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument that is expected to increase tourism and generate economic growth and jobs in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah in conjunction with a new exhibit hall to be opened next week.
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 Idaho. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $19.5 million in Idaho as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt signed a Record of Decision approving the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. The leasing program is required by law in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-97), ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Federal partners are working closely with first responders and firefighters from local, state, and tribal agencies to combat and monitor wildfires in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming as well as other states. Through the National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will visit South Florida this week for a series of events focused on restoring the health of the Everglades. While there, Jewell will also meet with the Seminole Tribe of Florida to announce a milestone in increasing self-determination and economic development for Native American tribes.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced next steps in a collaborative effort with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) aimed at acquiring 13,000 acres of private lands within the Lower Blackfoot River watershed, near the iconic Montana waterway. The U.S. Department of the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today announced the approval of a $22 million coal lease on the Greens Hollow tract in central Utah to Canyon Fuel Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Bowie Resource Partners, LLC. Coal mining in the area currently supports nearly 1,700 mining and related jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Clean Power Plan proposal :
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service will waive entrance fees on August 14 and 15 to encourage all Americans to visit our national parks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: CARMEL, IN – On Thursday, August 7, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join Carmel Mayor James Brainard, a member of the bipartisan coalition Mayors for Parks , and other local officials to highlight the Land and Water Conservation Fund's contributions to urban parks, clean water, outdoor recreation and healthy economies in Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain COVID-19-related small business loans from several financial institutions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: QUEENS, N.Y. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan B. Jarvis today to announce the establishment of a new Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay with a consortium led by the City University of New York (CUNY). ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CAMBRIA, Calif. – On Friday, Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze joined Representative Lois Capps and California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird, as well as other federal, state, local and tribal officials, to listen to ...
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 Iowa that will be included in the final report - representing ...
