Interior Department Announces Members Of Biden-Harris Leadership Team
The Department of the Interior today announced key members of agency leadership who will advance the Biden-Harris administration’s agenda to build back better and address the four intersecting challenges of our time: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity, and climate change.
“With today’s announcement, President Biden is delivering on his commitment to build teams that exude talent and experience, and look like America,” said
Jennifer Van der Heide, incoming Chief of Staff. “We look forward to working with the dedicated civil servants at the Department to fulfill Interior’s missions, advance President Biden’s vision to honor our nation-to-nation relationship with Tribes and uphold the trust and treaty responsibilities to them, address the climate and nature crises, and build a clean energy future that creates good-paying jobs and powers our nation. We are ready to get to work on behalf of the
The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a substantial rewrite of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, a landscape management strategy that balances conservation, renewable energy development and cultural resources across 10.8 million acres of the Southern California desert.
Dropped a week before President Donald Trump leaves office, the move was quickly lambasted by politicians and conservationists, while the renewable industry approached it cautiously, arguing that the plan does need a second look.
Agreed to in 2016, the original plan took eight years to construct and was shaped by more than 16,000 public comments as well as input from dozens of stakeholders including the military, conservation groups, solar companies and state agencies.
The groups say wolves haven t recovered in enough places yet. 1:30 pm, Jan. 14, 2021 ×
A coalition of wildlife conservation groups on Thursday, Jan. 14 formally filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service move that has stripped gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protection across nearly all the lower 48 states.
Six conservation groups represented by Earthjustice the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Oregon Wildlife, National Parks Conservation Association and the Humane Society of the United States filed the 25-page suit in California s northern district federal court.
The federal move to delist wolves, first reported in the News Tribune on Oct. 28, took effect Jan. 4, handing control of the carnivores back to state and tribal resource agencies.
National Parks Conservation Association Reports Groups Challenge Trump Administration Over Gray Wolf Delisting Published: Friday, 15 January 2021 05:53
The removal of Endangered Species Act protection from gray wolves in the lower-48 states threatens populations just beginning to return to national parks including North Cascades and Dinosaur National Monument.
January 15, 2021 - SAN FRANCISCO On Thursday, six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule that removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray
wolves in the lower-48 states except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its decision despite the science that concludes wolves are still functionally extinct in the vast majority of their former range across the continental U.S. Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, the National Pa