IPAA submitted comments this week on the joint U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service draft revision to their Habitat Conservation Planning Handbook. The comments echo concerns acknowledged by the Services that the HCP process is too costly, inefficient, and [...]
IPAA held its annual midyear meeting in Colorado Springs this week, kicking off the event with a one-day conference focused on strategic planning on environment and land access issues. The conference included expert speakers and members of IPAA’s Government Relations [...]
IPAA and API submitted comments on BLM’s proposed Resource Management Planning Rule this week. Many of the organization’s member companies hold valid existing leases and are interested in future oil and natural gas leasing, exploration, and production activities in areas [...]
On March 8, 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued proposed revisions (FWS-HQ-ES-2015-0126) to their mitigation policy that would provide a policy framework for applying a landscape-scale approach to achieve through the application of mitigation hierarchy a net gain, [...]
This week, IPAA submitted comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service’s revisions to the proposed regulations for petitions for listing species under the Endangered Species Act. While IPAA supports the overall objective of [...]
IPAA and API submitted comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed revisions to its Mitigation Policy. The draft policy improperly expands the Service’s authority beyond that delegated by Congress, and lacks statutory and regulatory justification. Its onerous requirements [...]
The American Petroleum Institute and the Independent Petroleum Association of America submitted comments on the Draft Methodology for prioritizing status reviews and accompanying 12-month findings on petitions for listing species under the Endangered Species Act. API and IPAA appreciate that the Draft Methodology [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Political Affairs Dan Naatz issued the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to not list the Greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species [...]