Issues IPAA submits request to extend comment deadline for public review of ESA Compensatory Mitigation Policy. IPAA and others submitted a request to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week to extend the comment deadline for the public review period of [...]
Issues NOTE: A new comment page on IPAA’s ESA Watch website is now live, featuring a complete list of IPAA comments on ESA related issues since the start of the campaign. Visit the page HERE. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [...]
Issues IPAA Submits Comments on FWS and NMFS Draft Revision to Habitat Conservation Planning Handbook. This week, IPAA submitted comments on the joint U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) draft revision to their Habitat [...]
Issues CBD threatens massive lawsuit over status of 417 species. On Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to act on petitions to protect more than [...]
Issues Groups threaten to sue again over Pacific development. Over the past two weeks the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) have announced their intention to sue the Interior Department less than three months after the [...]
Issues FWS proposes endangered listing for Texas hornshell. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Tuesday to list the Texas hornshell as an endangered species. A freshwater mussel species found in New Mexico and Texas, the Texas hornshell is the [...]
Issues **NOTE: IPAA has released a new one-pager to provide members and ESA Watch readers a brief summary of the Endangered Species Act. Check out the new fact sheet HERE. Lesser prairie chicken officially removed from endangered species list. The [...]
Issues IPAA holds mitigation meetings in Washington, DC. On July 14, IPAA and representatives from multiple member companies conducted a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss the Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed revisions to its mitigation policy. On March 8, [...]