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Interior Strengthens Employee Ethics Program
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced new steps to strengthen the Department’s ethics program, providing more financial and personnel resources, increasing the authority of ethics officers, and requiring greater employee involvement in evaluating performance, accountability and compliance. more
Minor Normal School at Howard University will receive $800,000 in Recovery funds for historic preservation.Hi-Res
Interior Recovery Funds Will Help Historically Black Colleges and Universities Repair Historic Buildings
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will be the beneficiaries of $14.25 million for historic preservation grants aimed at providing assistance in the repair of historic buildings on their campuses. more
Reality Check: California's Water Crisis
From California’s Bay Delta and the farms of the Central Valley to the fisheries of northern California and cities in the south, a third year of severe drought is affecting the lives of all Californians. The Department of the Interior is providing clear, accurate responses to questions about the state’s water crisis so that Californians can make informed decisions about water use and help build a sustainable water future for themselves and their communities.
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk and officials from the Interior Department, Navajo Nation and Rough Rock Community School with students from the school's Navajo Language Immersion class. (BIE photo) Hi-Res
$52.5 Million Recovery Project Gets Underway to Replace Rough Rock Community School
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk joined Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley and other Indian Affairs and Navajo tribal officials September 16 in a ceremonial groundbreaking event for Phase II of a major school replacement and improvement project at the historic Rough Rock Community School on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona. more
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Secretary Cites Progress on New Energy Frontier in Hill Speech
The Interior Department is making swift progress on President Obama’s clean energy agenda, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said today at the Alliance to Save Energy’s Summit held in the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. more
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Secretary Salazar testified before the House Natural Resources committee. He was joined by Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Wilma Lewis, Minerals Management Service Director Liz Birnbaum and Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey. Hi-Res
Salazar Ends Controversial Royalty in Kind Program
In testimony to the House Natural Resources Committee, Secretary Salazar today announced he is reforming and restructuring the Department’s management of U.S. energy resources, starting with the termination of the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) controversial Royalty in Kind program that accepts oil and natural gas from producers in lieu of cash royalties. more
Interior Invests $20 Million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding for Rural Water in North Central Montana
The $20 million investment in the Rocky Boys North Central Montana Regional Water System will treat water at Lake Elwell, south of Chester, and transmit it to approximately 43,000 users on Rocky Boys Indian Reservation and other communities in the region, including Big Sandy, Box Elder, Havre, the North Havre County Water District, the Hill County Water District and Chester, as well as communities farther west. This ARRA project will assist in implementing the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s water right settlement. more
Secretary Salazar signs a secretarial order launching the Department of the Interior's coordinated strategy to address climate change. The Secretary is joined by Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes, Science Advisor Kit Batten, Director of the Minerals Management Service Liz Birnbaum, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle and other senior officials. Hi-Res
Secretary Salazar Launches Interior Climate Change Response Strategy
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar launched the Department of the Interior's first-ever coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America's land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources. Secretary Salazar signed a secretarial order establishing a framework through which Interior bureaus will coordinate climate change and resource management strategies. more
DOI News Archives
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009
 Minerals Management Service
MMS Study Assesses Hurricane Impacts on Northern Gulf of Mexico Coral Reefs and Communities; Post-Hurricane Assessment Study provides baseline for future review. more
 Bureau of Indian Affairs
Assistant Secretary Echo Hawk Underscores President Obama's Education Message to BIE Students in Bismarck, N.D. 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
Bob Abbey Confirmed as Director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Abbey is a veteran public land policy leader and was chief architect of the Great Basin Restoration Initiative, as Nevada State Director for the Bureau of Land Management.
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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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