This Week at Interior September 20, 2024

This Week: Secretary Haaland travels to Marfa, Texas, to celebrate the designation of Blackwell School National Historic Site, and kick off National Hispanic Heritage Month; the first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale is announced in the Gulf of Maine; Interior announces nearly $1.3 million to help strengthen local governments’ wildfire response by converting vehicles to wildland fire engines; $3.25 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding will improve ecosystem health and Pacific salmon resiliency in Alaska; OSMRE announces more than $4.8 million to address dangerous and polluting abandoned mine lands in Maryland; BLM announces another step forward for a proposed critical mineral mine in Nevada; USGS releases a new interactive map that displays the risks of landslides across the country; the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC is now complete; and we head north for our social media Picture of the Week! Make sure you follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube!

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