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The auction, scheduled to take place on Sept. 4, will offer nearly 112,800 acres offshore Virginia for commercial wind energy leasing.

The Western Watershed Enhancement Partnership is part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which outlines a comprehensive approach to reduce carbon pollution and better prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change.

A result of collaboration through the White House Rural Council, the federal agencies will kick off this partnership through a pilot Sentinel Landscape in the South Puget Sound region of Washington State.

The national park serves as an economic engine for the community. In 2011, 3.7 million visitors to the Statue of Liberty contributed $174 million to the New York area economy and supported more than 2,200 jobs.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visited the Incident Command Posts for the Yarnell Fire and Dean Peak Fire in Arizona, where she met with first responders and volunteers.

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the release of the 2013 State of the Birds Report on Private Lands.

The word “hero” can be overused, but in this case the word fails to do justice to these firefighters who stood in the path of a roaring inferno to protect their communities.

As part of President Obama's comprehensive climate action plan, he challenged the U.S. Department of the Interior to approve an additional 10,000 above the original goal of 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy production on public lands by 2020.

In her remarks at the Mid Year Conference of the National Congress of American Indians, Secretary Jewell highlighted the Executive Order that President Obama signed yesterday to establish a White House Council on Native American Affairs.

The US has the potential to store a mean of 3,000 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide in geologic basins throughout the country, according to the first detailed national geologic carbon sequestration assessment released today by the US Geological Survey.