News from March 2022
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Legal Subcommittee (LSC) provides a multilateral forum for member states to discuss a number of legal issues and related topics.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management is encouraging recreationalists who use the Minnewawa Truck Trail and the Otay Mountain Wilderness to access these areas from the south end at Doghouse Junction (view map), as the northern parts of the truck trail and along Otay Lakes Road are closed to the public for an indefinite amount of time.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has completed the Harris Acquisition Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing the proposed purchase of a 275-acre parcel of private land, located 5 miles east of downtown Boise, that has been directly offered to the BLM by the owner.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management is hosting opportunities to live and work as volunteer camp hosts at beautiful Eagle Lake and along the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail, both in Lassen County, California.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management seeks public input on a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line crossing public lands about 60 miles west of Phoenix in Maricopa County.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
On Thursday, March 24, at 4 p.m. Mountain Time, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab Field Office will host a virtual listening session focused on the Castle Valley area, which is approximately 23 miles northeast of Moab.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
Officials with the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument are accepting applications for its summer Artist-in-Residence program.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
Federally endangered Pahrump poolfish are flourishing in eastern Nevada’s Spring Valley due to an inter-agency habitat enhancement project coordinated by Bristlecone Field Office Wildlife Biologist Nancy Herms, recipient of this year’s Bureau of Land Management Conservation Project Award.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office staff are seeking public input on an environmental assessment to help enhance the outdoor recreation experience in Nine Mile Canyon, located near Price in northeast Utah.
By Press release submission | Mar 14, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Inola, Okla. March 25-26, at the Riverbend Arena.
By Chris Lang | Mar 13, 2022
President Joe Biden's administration nominated David Applegate for director of the United States Geological Survey, Department of Interior officials said in a release in March.
By Chris Lang | Mar 13, 2022
The drought conditions and lack of snowfall have had a serious effect on Lake Powell, and officials have said that they expect a temporary decline below 3,525 feet in the water level, although they do expect the Lake to recover.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
The USDA is modifying its borrowing program for the agriculture industry, with a focus to help those in underserved areas, department officials said.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 13, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Illinois agreed that the greater Chicago area attained acceptable ground ozone levels.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s ‘Good Neighbor’ proposal to reduce ozone-forming emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and help states meet the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
There were five notices published by the State Department in week ending March 12, according to the Federal Register.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on March 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on March 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2022
News Release: Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed restrictions on the export, reexport, and transfer (in country) of luxury goods to all end users in the Russian Federation (Russia) and Belarus and to certain Russian and Belarusian oligarchs and malign actors located worldwide. This action is in response to Russia’s brutal, continuing invasion of Ukraine (as substantially enabled by Belarus) in flagrant violation of international law.
