Issues IPAA annual call up this week. IPAA held its annual call up this week, with over 60 company representatives meeting with members of Congress to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the oil and natural gas industry, including the [...]
Issues Zinke signs order to improve habitat and conservation of Western species. Last Friday at the Western Conservation and Hunting Expo in Salt Lake City, Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke signed Secretarial Order 3362, directing “appropriate bureaus within [...]
Issues Administration calls for review and comment on Mitigation. This morning, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a notice in the Federal Register calling for public review and comment on its Service-wide Mitigation Policy and its Endangered Species Act [...]
Issues Dunes sagebrush lizard causing problems for Texas sand miners. A thin, three-inch long lizard, the dunes sagebrush lizard, inhabits one particular type of sand found in Texas’ Permian Basin – a region that supplies more than 20 percent of [...]
Issues Department of Interior makes sweeping changes to sage-grouse conservation and management plans. The Interior Department lifted a mining ban on Greater sage-grouse habitat in Western states this week, “formally nixing a nearly two-year environmental impact statement evaluating the withdrawal [...]
CAP report looks at sage grouse plans. In a new report published this week, the Center for American Progress (CAP) claims that Interior Secretary Zinke favored oil and natural gas development in his review of the sage grouse conservation management [...]
Issues Western leaders assess Zinke’s sage grouse plan. In the wake of Sec. Zinke’s recent secretarial order on sage grouse conservation, officials across the country have begun to weigh in on the potential effects of the order on the species. In [...]
Issues Interior Department orders review of sage grouse plans. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday signed a secretarial order announcing a review of federal sage grouse conservation plans. The purpose of the review is to strengthen sage grouse conservation while [...]