News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated more than 187,000 square miles of on-shore barrier islands, denning areas and offshore sea-ice as critical habitat for the threatened polar bear under the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration's all-of-the-above strategy to support safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior today announced the release of an updated draft proposal that would establish commonsense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing on ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.--Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation is providing an additional $10 million for immediate water conservation and drought relief efforts in the Klamath Basin of Oregon. The Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-212) made the funding available.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LIBREVILLE, Gabon – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, co-chair of President Obama’s Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking, concluded an official visit to Gabon where she met with senior government officials to discuss ways the United States and the African country can work together to combat ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded President Obama's intent to nominate Kristen J. Sarri as the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget, the top official overseeing financial, administrative and programmatic policy for the Department. If confirmed by the Senate, Sarri would head the office she has led on an interim basis for the past three months as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Department of the Interior published its DOI Open Government Plan, detailing how it will improve transparency and integrate public participation and collaboration into its activities. DOI developed the plan in response to President Obama's call for an open and accountable government, which he laid out in his Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: An estimated $60 million in early restoration projects soon will begin along the Gulf Coast following the nation's largest oil spill, the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustee Council announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: The Trump Administration has recovered more species from the endangered and threatened species list than any previous administration in their first term. That’s right, even more than the Obama Administration did in its first term.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal partners, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - During today’s White House Tribal Nations Summit, President Biden announced that the Department of the Interior and 16 other federal agencies have formally committed to protecting Tribal treaty rights in agency policymaking and regulatory processes.
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 Carolina. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $3.2 million in South Dakota as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - The sixth and last defendant in a marijuana and cocaine conspiracy case was sentenced on Monday to 17 years in prison for his role in the conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: TOWNSEND, GA -- On Thursday, June 26, 2014, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will visit the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge to announce an important milestone in the ongoing recovery efforts for the wood stork, which is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: JACKSON CENTER, Ohio – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt was joined by Airstream leadership as they highlighted the importance of outdoor recreation and the resurgence of the American economy during a visit to the Airstream Factory Service Center. Following a tour of the manufacturing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Forests, grasslands and shrublands and other ecosystems in the West sequester nearly 100 million tons (90.9 million metric tons) of carbon each year, according to a Department of the Interior report released today. Carbon that is absorbed or “sequestered” through natural processes reduces ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today proposed a national solution to restore the health of America's wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them by creating a cost-efficient, sustainable management program that includes the possible creation of wild horse preserves on the productive grasslands of the Midwest and East.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today kicked off a workshop covering onshore renewable energy with a roundtable discussion about what the administration is doing to build a clean energy economy.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development has awarded $3.7 million to tribes that are developing renewable energy resources for their communities. Access to these resources will allow these communities to develop jobs and additional economic opportunities on their reservations, while decreasing their reliance on fossil fuels.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In support of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Bureau of Land Management today approved a natural gas project in Utah's Uinta Basin that would drill up to approximately 1,300 new wells over 15 years.
