Washington DC - March 5 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking project proposals that will improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River in 41 eligible watersheds in 12 states.

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Washington DC - March 5 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Department of the Interior has selected the University of Alaska as the first of eight planned regional Climate Science Centers in the nation.

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Washington DC - February 23 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed a Secretarial order establishing a new water sustainability strategy for the United States. The “SMART” in WaterSMART stands for “Sustain and Manage America’s Resources for Tomorrow.”

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Washington DC - February 23 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The  plan lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals over the next five years to help restore the lakes.

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Washington DC - February 10 - Federal officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Coast Guard unveiled a strategy that outlines over 25 short and long-term actions and $78.5 million in investments to combat the spread of Asian carp.

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Washington DC - February 1 - Naturally occurring methane hydrate may represent an enormous source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and could ultimately augment conventional natural gas supplies, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council.

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Washington DC - January 29 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural land cover across most of the nation for the 2009 crop year.

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Washington DC - January 11 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making almost $10 million in grants available to 37 eligible coastal and Great Lakes states, territories and tribes to monitor beach water quality and notify the public of conditions that may be unsafe for swimming.

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Washington DC - January 5 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a request for project proposals to protect, restore and enhance Great Lakes fish habitat under the Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership.

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Washington DC - December 22 - Congressmen Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and Fred Upton (R-MI) have joined 50 of their colleagues in both the House and the Senate in signing onto a letter requesting swift action be taken to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

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Washington DC - December 18 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its most comprehensive study of the nation’s lakes to date. The draft study marked the first time EPA and its partners used a nationally consistent approach to survey the ecological and water quality of lakes.

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Washington DC - December 17 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the United States, joined by Australia, France, Japan, Norway, and the United Kingdom, agreed, in the context of an ambitious and comprehensive outcome in Copenhagen, to dedicate a total of USD3.5 billion as initial public finance towards slowing, halting and eventually reversing deforestation in developing countries.

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Washington DC - December 1 - As demand for water from various sectors increases and places additional stress on already constrained supplies, the effects of expanded biofuel production may need to be considered.

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Washington DC - November 27 - The Department of the Interior has scheduled 38 oil and natural gas lease sales for U.S. public lands in 2010, including a sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced.

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Washington DC - November 16 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Department will hold an oil and natural gas lease sale for the Central Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf that will offer nearly 36 million acres and could produce up to 1.3 billion barrels of oil and 5.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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