Issues IPAA talks ESA at Planning Conference. This week, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) invited experts on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to their 2016 Strategic Planning Conference. This included a panel on pollinators and a presentation by [...]
Issues IPAA voices concerns on proposed critical habitat changes. The Fish and Wildlife Service is currently considering a new regulation that would alter how critical habitat is designated. If the proposed rule is adopted, the Service would have expanded authority [...]
Issues IPAA submits comments on rusty patched bumble bee. This week, IPAA and the American Petroleum Institute (API) submitted joint comments on the rusty patched bumble bee. As IPAA has noted before, in January 2013 the Xerces Society and partners [...]
READ FACT SHEET HERE The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed a new regulation that would dramatically expand the areas that could receive critical habitat designations. Critical habitat is areas of habitat that the FWS has determined are [...]
Issues Non-warranted greater sage-grouse listing announced. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its long awaited decision that it would not list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The announcement was first made by Secretary [...]