Latest U.S. Department of the Interior Stories

STERLING, Va., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- IceWEB(TM), Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IWEB), www.iceweb.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of the Interior to manage and store critical geospatial data. The Department has a suite of fully integrated systems each with approximately 20TB's of geospatial data and will be used to facilitate decisions that impact Federal lands,...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Today in meetings with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Native American tribal leaders, towns, land use planning agencies, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and others will propose a compromise that moves the project to an alternate site in close proximity to the disputed location and that respects the concerns of Native Americans and other stakeholders, and provides the developer with a strong, economically viable location for Cape Wind. The...

DENVER, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Secure64 Software Corporation announced today that the U.S. Department of the Interior has purchased the company's Secure64 DNS Signer product to meet the December 2009 OMB mandate requiring all federal agencies to add DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the DNS. The Domain Name System (DNS) is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses (and vice versa) and is critical for the normal operation of Internet-connected systems. The Department of...

A spokesman for the U.S. Department of the Interior said Tuesday that the Obama administration will move forward with a proposal issued in the final days of the Bush administration to expand offshore drilling in previously banned areas, a Reuters report said on Wednesday.Shortly after taking his oath of office on Tuesday, President Obama ordered all federal agencies and departments to suspend pending regulations until they can be reviewed by incoming administration personnel.However, Interior...

Deputy Secretary of the Interior Lynn Scarlett today presented His Royal Highness Jordanian Ambassador to the United States Prince Zeid Raad Zeid Al-Hussein with 15 advanced binoculars and spotting scopes for the Jordanian Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature. The equipment will be used at Wadi Mujib Nature Reserve, the home of the endangered Nubian Ibex, to assist in anti-poaching efforts. The Department of the Interior is the federal agency with primary responsibility for nature...

More than 190 million acres of federal land in 11 western states and Alaska will be made available to energy companies for the development of geothermal energy in the production of electricity; said the U.S. Department of the Interior.  Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne said that "these federal lands hold a huge energy potential". He added that the geothermal areas under lease could provide 5,540 megawatts of generation capacity by 2015.  This would be enough to meet the energy needs...

By Polly Summar Journal Staff Writer A recent report by the U.S. Department of the Interior has raised concerns about safety precautions at some American Indian schools in New Mexico. In a report released last Friday, the department reviewed the safety at nine "non-statistically selected" Bureau of Indian Educationoperated schools across the nation, and three of those were in New Mexico -- the Te Tsu Geh Oweenge Day School in Tesuque, the San Ildefonso Day School at San Ildefonso Pueblo...

A report issued by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Interior has concluded that the National Park Service knowingly used false scientific data to bolster its attempt to drive a local oyster company from the Point Reyes National Seashore area. The investigation conducted by the Inspector General reveals that Park Service officials made false scientific claims, misled other federal authorities and attempted to hide data that called into question the...

By Gregory, Traci VERONA - Including Gov. David Paterson and National Grid, more than a few groups have filed lawsuits to block the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) from placing nearly 13,004 acres of Oneida Indian Nation-owned land into federal trust. On May 20, the DOI announced its decision to place the land into federal trust, a move that would eliminate state and local taxes on and regulation of that land. Information about the DOI's decision is online at...