|
This Week: Secretary Haaland wraps up her week-long trip to the Pacific Islands; President Biden designates the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument; Interior announces new investments that will bring clean, reliable drinking water to communities across the West; the White House holds its first-ever Methane Summit; nearly $6 million in funding will create good-paying jobs and economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned coal mines in Iowa; a fish passage project is getting close to completion in Alaska; Interior turns out in force to support gatherings of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts; Landsat marks another anniversary; it's a "fee free day" to celebrate the Great American Outdoors Act's third birthday; and we'll take you to where the fireweed is burning bright this summer in our social media Picture of the Week!
Secretary Haaland Visits Pacific Islands
 Secretary Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor wrapped up a week-long trip to the Pacific Islands this week.
President Biden Designates Three Sites as the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
 President Biden designated the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument this week, which protects three historic sites in Illinois and Mississippi that will help tell a more complete story of our nation’s history.
$152 Million from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Expand Water Storage
 Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation this week announced a $152 million investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that will bring clean, reliable drinking water to communities across the West through six water storage and conveyance projects.
 Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Laura Daniel-Davis joined Administration leaders at the first-ever White House Methane Summit this week to discuss the urgent need to dramatically reduce methane emissions as a way to protect public health, create good-paying jobs and advance the Administration’s climate agenda.
 The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement this week announced nearly $6 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create good-paying jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Iowa.
 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams this week visited a fish passage project nearing completion on the Little Tonisina River in Alaska's Valdez-Cordova Borough.
 Personnel from the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement were on hand at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Glen Jean, West Virginia, for this year's National Boy Scout Jamboree. Meanwhile girl scouts from across the nation gathered in Orlando, Florida, for the tri-annual Girl Scout Convention and Phenom event, and Interior was there in force.
 Since 1972, the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA have worked together on an unprecedented and nearly continuous visual record of Earth’s landscapes, icescapes and coastal ecosystems.
 Get ready to get outdoors! Interior is celebrating the anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act with a fee free day on our public lands; entrance fees will be waived August 4th at all lands managed by the Department.
|
