NOUN
- the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
How To Use Interior Department In A Sentence
- The amendment would bar the Interior Department from prohibiting individuals from legally carrying firearms inside national parks and wildlife refuges.
- Cummings called the Interior Department "schizophrenic" - on the one hand declaring its intent to protect polar bear habitat in the Arctic, yet at the same time "sacrificing that habitat to feed our unsustainable addiction to oil. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
- The Reagan-era Interior Department chief faces a possible six-month sentence and $ 5, 000 fine in the plea agreement.
- In effect, Gingrich is holding the Interior Department hostage to his attempt to put new restrictions on Medicare patients.
- When the tribes convinced FedEx to deliver 500 pounds of stinking fish to the Interior Department, the Klamath finally got Washington's full attention.
- Salazar and Jon Wellinghoff, the acting FERC chairman, reached the agreement Monday night that clarifies the authority over wind projects stands with the Interior Department, while assuring that jurisdiction over licensing of wave and ocean current -- or "hydrokinetic" -- projects stand with the energy regulatory commission. WUSA-TV - Vodcasts
- An Interior Department report published on Tuesday said that more than two-thirds of offshore exploration licences in the Gulf of Mexico have yet to be acted upon by oil companies.
- Interestingly, proceeds from the sale of the wild horses and burros will go to the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management wild horse and burro adoption program.
- The amendment would bar the Interior Department from prohibiting individuals from legally carrying firearms inside national parks and wildlife refuges.
- The Bush Interior Department believed that a sort of informal deputization of the citizenry could be effected by permitting it to march about in national parks with loaded weapons, confident that not all would prove as incompetent as former vice president and now official doom-sayer Cheney, who inadvertently plugged a hunting companion. Christopher Brauchli: The NRA Befriends the Credit Card