Issues ESA Bills Introduced in the House of Representatives. Earlier this week, four bills pertaining to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) were introduced in the House of Representatives in a hearing of the Committee on Natural Resources. The bills introduced [...]
Issues Kansas Pushes Back Against Lesser Prairie Chicken Listing. On April 2nd, the state attorney general’s office announced that Kansas is joining a lawsuit with Oklahoma, suing the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken as [...]
Issues Lesser Prairie Chicken Listed as a Threatened Species. On Thursday, the Obama administration officially listed the Lesser Prairie Chicken as a “threatened species” under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). According to the final listing document for the U.S. [...]
Issues Oklahoma and Industry Sue over Federal ESA Mega-Settlements. This week, the state of Oklahoma and the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA) filed suit against the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over the FWS’s 2011 mega settlements with the Center [...]
Issues Occidental Petroleum Enrolls 1.8 Million Acres to Support Recovery of the Lesser Prairie Chicken. This month, Occidental Petroleum (Oxy), alongside a diverse coalition of state wildlife agencies, conversation interests, private landowners and others in the energy industry, invested in [...]
Issues Occidental Enrolls 1.8 Million Acres to Support Lesser Prairie Chicken. This week, Occidental Petroleum announced it has enrolled nearly 1.8 million acres of its oil and gas interests in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma, into programs designed to [...]
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) announced today that it has enrolled nearly 1.8 million acres of its oil and gas interests in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma, in programs designed to support conservation measures for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (LEPC). [...]
Issues Oversight and Government Reform Committee's energy policy panel holds a hearing on the Endangered Species Act. During a House hearing on February 27th Rep. James Lankford (R-OK). Highlighted Oklahoma's Lesser Prairie Chickens and American Burying Beetles. The Wall Street [...]