News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has released a series of interactive online maps designed to promote climbing and other recreational opportunities on BLM-managed public lands. Developed in cooperation with Access Fund and Mountain Project , the maps allow individuals to easily plan exciting climbing experiences at sites around the western United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's comprehensive strategy for transforming the nation's electric grid and spurring the development of renewable energy, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced approval of the majority of the proposed Gateway West Transmission Line Project, a 990-mile, high-voltage line that will provide up to 1,500 megawatts of transmission capacity in southern Wyoming and southern Idaho.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In a significant move to protect one of the world’s most cherished species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today completed a rulemaking process under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to institute a near-total ban on the domestic commercial trade of African elephant ivory. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor today celebrated milestones for two collaborative efforts the Interior Department has spearheaded to help secure sustainable water supplies for future generations. They made the announcements at the Colorado River Water Users Association meeting in Las Vegas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has named Will Shafroth, a land conservationist executive and founding director of the Colorado Conservation Trust and Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The appointment does not require Senate confirmation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the Obama Administration's Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) initiative to remove barriers standing between Native youth and opportunities to succeed, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will join Miccosukee Tribal leaders to announce an important educational achievement for Native youth.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON –– Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the issuance of a Final Rule amending its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations. The revisions will help create a more efficient and transparent process that are aligned with recent legal developments, court decisions and policy guidance from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and has bipartisan support from Congress.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: REDOUBT VOLCANO, ALASKA--Scientists continue to work around-the-clock monitoring Redoubt Volcano--located 106 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska-where they predict the volcano will erupt within days to weeks. Over the weekend and through midday Monday, seismicity remained elevated, and an overflight on Saturday showed continued melting of the glacier that drains the summit crater.
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 California that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives recognized the value of wildlife refuges in urban areas through bipartisan resolutions designating Sept. 29, 2018 as Urban National Wildlife Refuge Day to highlight the more than 100 urban wildlife refuges across the country.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HAMMOND, LA – A Hammond security solutions company illegally denied 23 field operations managers in Louisiana their federal overtime protections. The employees, labeled executives and paid on a salary basis, worked about 60 hours a week, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland today lauded the progress of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service for their work to balance important management issues related to North Carolina's Outer Banks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of the two-year anniversary of President Obama's Climate Action Plan , U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released a report revealing that national park infrastructure and historic and cultural resources totalling more than $40 billion are at high risk of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk today announced a Tribal Consultation Policy for the Department of the Interior, launching a new era of enhanced communication with American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. The new policy emphasizes trust, respect and shared responsibility in providing tribal governments an expanded role in informing federal policy that impacts Indian Country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Department of the Interior today announced a call for nominations for appointment to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - On May 11, 2010, shortly after the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar asked the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct an independent and science-based investigation of the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Today, the NAE-NRC released its final report on the blowout and lessons learned for improving offshore drilling safety.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: President Obama today will sign a Proclamation to designate Fort Monroe a National Monument under the Antiquities Act. Until recently, Fort Monroe was the third-oldest Army post in continuous active service, and is integral to the history of slavery, the Civil War, and the U.S. military. Today's announcement is part of a series of executive actions to put Americans back to work and strengthen the economy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create jobs and cut carbon pollution, on May 9, 2014, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor will hold an outreach meeting to discuss options for addressing venting and flaring from conventional energy development on public ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) today announced a $940 million proposed settlement with a nationwide class of Native American Tribes and tribal entities that, if approved by the federal district court, would resolve a 25-year-old legal dispute ...
