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24 May 2021, 9:10 pm by Hannah Pugh
” Congress long ago authorized the Interior Secretary to manage public lands. [read post]
8 May 2012, 6:16 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) The New Orleans Times Picayune reports the White House denied the Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General access to e-mails and communications about White House revisions to a report Interior Secretary Ken Salazar relied upon to justify a moratorium in oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 8:15 am by Sarah M Donnelly
Roberts, who leads the Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, today announced the Department’s decision to place a 1.08-acre land parcel owned by the Craig Tribal Association, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in the City of Craig, Alaska, into federal Indian trust status. [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 10:05 am
Thomas Ewing, Commissioner Ewing's grandfather, was the first Secretary of the Interior Department, having been appointed by President Zachary Taylor in 1849 when the Department was formed. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 11:56 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Department of the Interior PANEL II The Honorable Todd Mielke County Commissioner County of Spokane Hazel Longmire Vice-Chairperson Colusa Indian Community Council Alexander Skibine Professor University of Utah [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 3:16 pm by Stephanie Clark
”  Less than a month after Opinion M-37041 was issued, the Acting Secretary of the Interior issued a memorandum temporarily suspending Opinion M-37041, pending a review by the new Acting Solicitor. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 5:53 am by admin
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar granted for the first time a lease for a commercial wind farm on the Outer Continental… Read this entire article for free, simply activate your free 15 day trial access to World Climate Change Report now. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 5:00 am by Kate Fort
A day after Tara Sweeney, an Executive Vice President of Arctic Slope Corporation, was appointed as the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, the Department of Interior Solicitor’s Office withdrew a previous opinion regarding the authority of the government to take land into trust for Alaska Natives pending a (you guessed it) notice and comment period: The Department allowed only 60 days for comment when it proposed removing the Alaska exclusion from its… [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 7:51 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Bryan Newland, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Department of InteriorBryan Newland is a citizen of Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe), and was born and raised on the Bay Mills Reservation on the southern shore of Lake Superior. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 12:50 pm by WIMS
At Presidential direction, those events prompted the Department of the Interior to prohibit all new and existing oil and gas drilling operations on the Outer Continental Shelf for six months. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 12:27 pm by WIMS
In May, two other industry task forces provided recommendations to the Department of the Interior on industry operating procedures and equipment. [read post]
26 Apr 2019, 11:12 am by Megan Geuss
Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images) In an interview with the Wall Street Journal this week, the Department of the Interior's new secretary, David Bernhardt, said that the Trump administration would indefinitely suspend its plans to expand offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and several areas in the Atlantic ocean. [read post]
29 May 2024, 2:09 pm by NARF
S.4424 - A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, to acknowledge and support the longstanding use of cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other purposes. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 3:59 pm by Holly Doremus
Marcilynn Burke, who is on leave from her environmental law teaching gig at the University of Houston, has been named Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department of Interior. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 6:15 pm
Secretary Salazar appears to be well on his way towards moving the Department of Interior back to a more centrist position. [read post]
12 Aug 2015, 7:02 am by bryannewland
The Department of the Interior published similar statements earlier this summer. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 4:03 pm by Andrew Long
Interior Secretary Salazar withdrew the Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR) today. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 5:18 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
” An excerpt: Management challenges within the Department of Interior’s Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs (Indian Affairs), such as fragmented administrative structures and frequent turnover in leadership, continue to hamper efforts to improve Indian education. [read post]