Issues Chairman Bishop talks ESA this week. Laying out his priorities for the 2017 Congress, House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop spoke to Politico Pro and E&E News this week regarding his plans for the Endangered Species Act. Chairman Bishop [...]
Issues IPAA comments on rusty-patched bumble bee listing proposal. Last week, the Independent Petroleum Association of America – in conjunction with the American Petroleum Institute and American Exploration & Production Council – submitted comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]
Issues FWS prepares to publish final Mitigation Policy. This morning, the Fish and Wildlife Service released its pre-publication notice for its Final Mitigation Policy, a policy framework for applying a landscape-scale approach to achieve “a net gain in conservation outcomes, [...]
Issues Key federal agency positions in the air after presidential election results. Predictions of who will fill key cabinet positions began to circulate this week following the announcement of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election early Wednesday morning. Sarah [...]
This week, IPAA, in conjunction with API and AXPC, submitted comments to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on the proposed decision to list the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee (RPBB) under the Endangered Species Act. The comments highlight the lack of [...]
Issues Federal officials reveal plan to protect sage-grouse habitat. On Monday the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Forest Service released a plan to combat destructive wildfires and restore sagebrush in the Great Basin. The plan supports Secretary of the Interior Sally [...]
Issues Court says species can be listed as threatened based on climate change projections. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the federal government may list a species as "threatened" based on climate models showing possible future [...]
Issues IPAA submits comments on ESA Compensatory Mitigation Policy. This week, IPAA filed joint comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on its Endangered Species Act Compensatory Mitigation Policy. The Compensatory Mitigation Policy seeks to provide a "broad umbrella [...]