News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In support of President Donald J. Trump's America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer approximately 78 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TWENTYNINE PALMS Calif. – Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor approved the first step ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Prepared by the Joint Information Center
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 Delaware that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded Florida Governor Rick Scott's announcement that the State of Florida will support the next phase of bridge construction on the Tamiami Trail in the Everglades.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Orginally Published by: The Register-Guard . By: U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt. . The health of our forests and timbered area can mean life or death for citizens in the Northwest. . Actively managing our timbered lands by permitting responsible timber harvests, clearing dead and dying ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today at the White House, President Donald J. Trump held a historic meeting with the Presidents of the freely associated states (FAS) in the Western Pacific: President Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr, of the Republic of Palau; President Hilda C. Heine of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); and President David W. Panuelo of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MIDLAND, Texas – A day after showcasing a successful partnership in Utah between industry and the conservation community to protect environmentally sensitive areas while developing America's energy resources, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt has designated the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park as an official member of the African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN), formally recognizing the historical and national significance of the tragic Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and Dr. John Hope Franklin’s work to advance the African American civil rights movement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar meets with tribal representatives at the White House Tribal Nations Conference in November 2009
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: President Obama today will sign a Proclamation to designate federal lands within the former Fort Ord as a National Monument under the Antiquities Act. Fort Ord, a former military base located on California's Central Coast, is a world-class destination for hikers, mountain bikers, and outdoor enthusiasts ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In response to worsening drought conditions in the West, including in areas like the Klamath River Basin, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack released the following statement:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WACO, TEXAS – On Monday, October 5, U.S. Secretary of the Interior ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded President Obama’s action to use his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States today joins the five Gulf states in announcing a settlement to resolve civil claims against BP arising from the April 20, 2010 Macondo well blowout and the massive oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced the start of a public process to explore expanding incentives for voluntary partnerships with private landowners and other land stewards to help conserve imperiled wildlife. The effort is part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's commitment ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a ceremony with Harry E. Johnson, Sr., President of the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., Christine King Farris, sister to Martin Luther King Jr.; EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and members of the Black and Hispanic Caucuses, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today signed a permit allowing construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: GRAND CANYON, AZ – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Acting Director of the National Park Service Mike Reynolds announced an immediate action plan to combat the widespread and pervasive culture of harassment and discrimination throughout the National Park Service (NPS). The action ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama's nomination of David J. Hayes, one of the nation's foremost natural resource experts, as the next Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director John Holdren, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Director Suzette Kimball, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Willie May and other federal agency staff, state government representatives, and stakeholders at a White House Summit on earthquake resilience.
