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The Department of the Interior announced today that over the next six months, the Bureau of Reclamation expects to release a projected additional 3.33 million acre-feet (maf) of water from Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona to Lake Mead in Nevada.

Vice President Biden and Interior Secretary Salazar today honored former Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole for his longtime support for veterans and instrumental role in establishing the World War II Memorial.

Secretaries Chu and Salazar today announced $26.6 million in funding for research and development projects to advance hydropower technology, including pumped storage hydropower.

Secretary of the Interior Salazar today announced he is convening ministers and senior government officials from nations engaged in offshore oil and gas extraction to discuss development of technologies for containing potential deepwater well blowouts.

The Department today released the results of an internal study that shows the department could generate up to one million megawatt hours of electricity annually and create jobs by adding hydropower capacity at 70 of its existing facilities.

WASHINGTON — In honor of César Chávez Day, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced an important step in the exploration of how the National Park Service can honor and commemorate the late civil rights leader.

Secretary Salazar and Director Bromwich today announced that the Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee (OESC) will hold its first public meeting on Monday, April 18, 2011.

A report requested by President Obama and released today by Interior shows that more than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico and more than half of onshore leases on federal lands remain idle...

WASHINGTON – Today the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior released two documents to address the wildland fire management challenges across America.