IPAA submitted joint comments with API, the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, and the Western Energy Alliance stating that the best scientific and commercial information available demonstrates that the LPC does not meet the ESA’s definitions of either a threatened or endangered [...]
Issues Bishop bill targets sage grouse. House Natural Resources Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced H.R. 527 last week, a bill to help state governors plan for greater sage-grouse conservation and preservation. Bishop’s legislation is a reintroduction of a bill [...]
Issues Rusty patched bumble bee listed as an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared this week that it had listed the rusty patched bumble bee (RPBB) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), marking the [...]
Issues Trump's Supreme Court picks could reshape Endangered Species Act. President-elect Trump is set to nominate a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia early this year, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy are expected to retire before [...]
Over the past year, the IPAA team has continued its efforts to advocate for the appropriate and effective use of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), balancing the protection of critical species and habitats with economic development and sound science. IPAA [...]
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, [...]