Salazar Releases Long-Term Report Detailing Glaciers Shrinking in Alaska and Washington
- A report on long-term glacier measurements released today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar shows that glaciers are dramatically changing in mass, length and thickness as a result of climate change. Over the past 50 years, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have monitored the melting of Alaska’s Gulkana and Wolverine Glaciers and Washington’s South Cascade Glacier, yielding the longest such records in North America. more
Secretary Salazar checks a photovoltaic module with a voltmeter during his visit to the Abound Solar panel plant (photo credit: Tami A. Heilemann - DOI) Hi-Res
Secretary Salazar Underscores Green Jobs, Clean Energy Economy in Visit to High-Tech Solar Panel Plant
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar met with employees of Abound Solar, an innovative solar panel company that has created more than 200 ‘green jobs’ in two years and expects to double employment by next year. Abound Solar Inc., which carries out commercial scale manufacturing of next-generation thin-film solar photovoltaic modules, expects to have 420 employees by 2010. At capacity, the plant manufactures 3 million modules per year – enough to provide renewable energy to 40,000 homes. more
Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation Mike Connor and Dennis Falaschi, General Manager, Panoche and Pacheco Water Districts. The Panoche and Pacheco districts will receive part of the $40 million in drought relief funding. Hi-Res
Commissioner Connor Announces $40 Million in Economic Relief Projects for Drought-Stricken California
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor announced today that $40 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has been released for drought-relief projects in California. more
OPM Director John Berry and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar have fun while helping Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan (left) and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood (right) pack up food for delivery in the Capitol area. [Photo by Tami A. Heilemann - DOI] Hi-Res
Cabinet Secretaries Lend a Helping Hand for Feds Feed Families
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan to help deliver food in the Washington D.C. area that has been collected by federal employees as part of a nationwide volunteer effort called 'Feds Feed Families' food drive.
Coastline of Acadia National Park in Maine. (Photo credit: Tami A. Heilemann - DOI) Hi-Res
Secretary Salazar, Senator Collins Highlight Recovery Act Projects, Economic Benefits for Maine during Tour of Acadia National Park
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senator Susan Collins today highlighted $8.3 million in projects at Acadia National Park funded under President Obama’s economic recovery package that will bring jobs and economic growth to Maine. more
The stimulus money put me to work. I would be out of a job without it, "said Kelly Hanson a carpenter currently working on a project at the San Francisco Bay Wildlife Refuge in California. (Photo credit: FWS)Hi-Res
Secretary Salazar Cites "Swift Progress"
Under Recovery Act
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today testified before the House Budget Committee that the Department of the Interior is making "swift progress" on making investments and creating jobs using the $3 billion entrusted to Interior under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. more
YCC member Robert Clark and Secretary Salazar hiking in Great Falls. (Photo credit: Tami A. Heilemann - DOI) Hi-Res
Salazar Underscores Importance of Healthy Outdoor Activity for Young People in Visit to Great Falls Park near Nation's Capital
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today underscored the importance of outdoor recreation for young people, taking a hike with members of the Youth Conservation Corps at Great Falls Park outside Washington, one of thousands of federal, state, and local parks and wildlife refuges near urban areas across the country. more
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009
Minerals Management Service
S. Elizabeth Birnbaum has assumed her duties as the 10th Director of the Minerals Management Service, leading a regulatory agency responsible for over 1.7 billion offshore acres and the collection of royalties. more
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk today announced that he has named Donald “Del” Laverdure to the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs effective July 29. more
Bureau of Reclamation
Safety Evaluation and Visual Inspection of Existing Dams International Technical Seminar and Study Tour Announced. more
U.S. Geological Survey
The Coast Salish Nation and the USGS have launched their second Tribal Journey together to study and improve water resources in the Salish Sea. more
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Gray wolves to be removed from the list of threatened and endangered
species in the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountain states
but remain a protected species in Wyoming. more
Bureau of Land Management
Mike Pool, California state director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has been tapped to serve as the agency's acting national director in Washington D.C., effective March 1.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service has developed a web site to help plan visits to NPS sites that preserve African American Heritage. more
Office of Surface Mining
At an open house held at the University of Pittsburgh, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) recognized a collaborative project that will make thousands of historical maps of closed or abandoned underground coal mines in Pennsylvania available to the public. more
Readers of People, Land & Water, the U.S. Department of the Interior's news magazine, will now be able to access the publication on the Web. more
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