Issues Yellow-billed Cuckoo Considered for Threatened Listing. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed listing over 850 square miles occupied by the yellow-billed cuckoo as critical habitat. In October 2013, the FWS proposed listing the bird as [...]
Issues ESA Reform Bill Passes on House Floor. This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4315, the 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act, by a vote of 233-190. As Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) and author [...]
Tonight, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4315, the “21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act,”to enhance transparency surrounding the data, models and science used by federal agencies to determine listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This is a [...]
Issues ESA Reform Heads to House Floor. Next week, the House of Representatives is expected to take up H.R. 4315, the 21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act. This important legislation combines H.R. 4315, H.R. 4316, H.R. 4317 and H.R. 4318 [...]
NATIONAL Judge sets deadline for decision on butterfly. Wallowa County Chieftain. A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has until the end of June 2015 to decide whether to extend Endangered Species Act protection to the [...]
NATIONAL Lawsuit aims to block US-approved Nevada drilling. Associated Press. A rural Nevada group is asking a federal judge to block the sale of oil and gas leases it says will be used for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other [...]
Issues IPAA Launches New ESA Watch Website. At IPAA’s 84th Midyear Meeting in Colorado Springs last week, IPAA rolled out its new website for its year-old ESA campaign, Endangered Species Watch. By visiting the website, member companies, Hill staffers, and [...]