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Shell Oil Company, Shell Offshore Inc., Shell Frontier Oil & Gas Inc., and Shell Western Exploration and Production (Shell Defendants) have agreed to pay the US $2.2 million plus interest to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act.

The Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today unveiled a work plan that will allow the agency to focus its resources on the species most in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Even as the nation battled the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration continued to make significant gains last year in expanding renewable energy initiatives on public lands and offshore areas...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today named Alexander Wade Barker and LindaLee “Cissy” Kuuleinai Farm to serve on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Committee.

Deputy Secretary of the Interior Hayes and NOAA Administrator Lubchenco today issued statements regarding the National Academy of Sciences report on the use of science and adaptive management in California's Bay Delta Conservation Plan.

Interior Secretary Salazar today outlined a vision for a public-private campaign to restore the nation's most visited national park, and thanked the National Park Service's many private, philanthropic, and non-profit partners for their support.

During separate ceremonies today at the White House and on Capitol Hill, Interior Secretary Salazar joined bipartisan members of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission to celebrate the delivery of their Final Report.

The Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it is proposing to delist biologically recovered gray wolf populations in the Western Great Lakes, and ...

Today Deputy Secretary of the Interior Hayes announced that a new geospatial website, “ChangeMatters,” has made the Department of the Interior's satellite imagery of the world more easily accessible to the public.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Harris Sherman today released the 2011 State of the Birds Report.