Obama picked Sally Jewell, the chief executive of outdoor-gear retailer REI, to head the Interior Department.
The Interior Department -- we use our national parks to help our wounded warriors recover.
Ms. Tompkins is the first Native American to serve as the Solicitor of the Interior Department.
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Furloughs also hit the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and Budget and the Interior Department.
It has to be renewed each year as part of the bill that funds the interior department.
Before the Gulf spill, the Interior Department was issuing three to five shallow-water permits per week, Noe says.
In 2005, Congress gave the Interior Department the green light to establish an alternative energy and alternate use program.
Ken Salazar, a senator from Colorado, has been tapped for the interior department.
Mr. BABBITT: Well, I put together a task force in the Interior Department looking at possible public lands for monuments.
The Interior Department said more than 13, 000 people were being furloughed, including all 767 employees of the U.S. Park Police.
Oh, and one more player: The Interior Department announced last week that it was breaking up its Minerals Management Service.
The Republican nominee has also offered to strip the Interior Department of the power to lease and issue drilling permits.
The Interior Department didn't respond to a request for comment late Thursday on why the permits had been granted on Wednesday.
It was launched, sources tell CNN, by the Interior Department as its Insular Affairs office has federal administrative responsibility for the island.
One example: Under current law, the Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company.
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This summer, White House energy aide Heather Zichal announced that the Interior Department would issue new, restrictive rules for fracking after the election.
In addition, she said the Interior Department would not consider reopening any more of the originally proposed area to leasing until at least 2007.
Yet earlier this month the Interior Department released a new five-year plan that puts most of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits for oil drilling.
The refusal of the Transocean employees to testify at the hearing has prompted a heated back-and-forth between the Interior Department and the drilling company.
In December, Judge Lamberth ordered the Interior Department to shut down all its computers for ten weeks because trust-fund records were vulnerable to hackers.
The Republican program would require the Interior Department to move forward in order to free up leasing and development of drilling on public lands onshore.
But the Interior Department says that it is avoiding zones with sensitive cultural and biological artifacts while it is also fully considering transmission needs.
Solicitor Tompkins spoke about how the Interior Department plays a major role in legal and policy decisions that impact the daily lives of Indian people.
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Meanwhile, the Interior Department has set aside about 285, 000 acres of land in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah development for solar energy.
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That made me a natural candidate to promote this great new video from the good folks at the Interior Department highlighting some of America's epic National Park engagements.
Then there's my favorite example: The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in freshwater, but the Commerce Department handles them in when they're in saltwater.
The Interior Department granted the company permission to begin "certain limited preparatory activities" -- including work related to the installation of a blowout preventer -- on August 30.
The Interior Department, which is already one of the largest federal employers of young people, will create more opportunities, like summer jobs, for young people from military families.
The attorneys also said the Interior Department's subpoenas have geographic limits and so their clients, who live hundreds of miles away from the hearing location, aren't required to attend.
The Interior Department rushed to complete the rules in three months over the objections of lawmakers and environmentalists who argued that they would weaken how a landmark conservation law is applied.
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