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25 Jun 2022, 7:53 pm by Howard Friedman
Last month, the Department of Interior released Volume 1 of an investigative report as part of its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative designed to explore the legacy of past Indian boarding school policies. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 3:47 pm by Sabrina
News release: "Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that a team led by senior officials in the Department... [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 3:25 am
In an April 9, 2012 press release, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk will be leaving the Department of the Interior after nearly 3 years of leadership. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 10:24 am
Even as Jack Abramoff hopes to be rewarded for helping the government prosecute his cohorts, the Justice Department announced that Steven Griles, the former Deputy Secretary of the Interior Department, will plead guilty to a single count of obstructing justice in connection with the Abramoff investigation. [read post]
28 Sep 2017, 6:59 am by Kevin Schmidt
Department of the Interior with a federal lawsuit for allegedly refusing to hand over various records pertaining to a meeting that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had with the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute.Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed its complaint in D.C. federal court, saying that the DOI violated the Freedom of Information Act because it didn’t provide the group with all the documents it… [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 9:40 am by Kate Fort
– As part of President Obama’s commitment to fulfilling this nation’s trust responsibilities to American Indians and Alaska Natives, the Office of the Secretary of the Interior will have the Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform hold a public Webinar meeting on Monday, August 13, 2012. [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 10:25 am by Christine Swanick
The Office of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior has issued a legal opinion (the “Opinion“) to the Secretary of the Interior interpreting the statutory phrase “under federal jurisdiction” in the Indian Reorganization Act, 25 U.S.C. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by NRDC
If his past four months as the department’s acting secretary are any indication, our public lands, oceans, and wildlife are in trouble. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 4:07 pm by Kathleen Doody
Department of Interior (“Interior”) issued an order, effective immediately, mandating a 60-day moratorium on new oil and gas leases and drilling permits on public lands and waters (“Order”). [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 7:39 am by Ryan Mulvey
Former Koch adviser to oversee Interior Department’s FOIA requestsMiranda Green, The Hill, Dec. 10, 2018A political appointee and former adviser to Charles and David Koch will oversee Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent to the Interior Department, a position typically held by career staff.Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke last month quietly issued a secretarial order giving Daniel Jorjani the authority to oversee all FOIA… [read post]
5 May 2009, 10:12 pm
News release: "Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the two departments... [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Theo Spencer
You may not be aware that the US Department of Interior controls one fifth of the land in the United States—including our national parks, and 35,000 miles of coastline—and manages the drinking water of one in 10 Americans. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 3:06 pm by Allan Blutstein
CREW Sues Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Over Secretive Travel Recordsby Colin Kalmbacher,  Law & Crime, Jan. 1, 2018A purportedly non-partisan and nonprofit legal group has filed a lawsuit alleging the Department of the Interior violated a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request over official travel records.Filed just before the long holiday season began on November 21 in the U.S. [read post]
26 May 2015, 10:53 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Department of the Interior (Department), Office of the Solicitor (Office), Division of Indian Affairs, Branch of Tribal Government Services, located in Washington, D.C. [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 10:36 am by Holly Doremus
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has formalized the Department’s guidelines on scientific integrity and created the new position of Scientific Integrity Officer, to be filled by Dr. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 8:26 am by Jennifer Simon, Esq.
At 10:30am on April 19, 2011, Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that Cape Wind's Construction and Operations plan has been approved. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 12:32 pm by Andrew Shaw
By Andrew Shaw Today, at a luncheon hosted by the New Democrat Network (NDN), Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar offered a strong defense of the Obama Administration’s record on energy policy. [read post]