Issues Republican Senators Write Reid Over ESA. Late last week a group of fifteen Senate Republicans from ten states wrote a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) after the passage of S. 2198, the “Emergency Drought Relief Act.” The [...]
Issues IPAA Endorses Congressman Gardner Bill on Greater Sage Grouse. This week the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) wrote a letter to Representative Gardner that expresses the oil and natural gas industry’s support for HR 4716 – The Sage [...]
Issues USFWS and the NMFS Publish Documents in the Federal Register. Last Friday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published three documents in the Federal Register that are now open for public [...]
Issues Gunnison Sage-Grouse Decision Delayed Again. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) extended the deadline for a proposed listing decision on the Gunnison sage grouse in Colorado and Utah. U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet and [...]
Issues Industry Responds to NWR Proposed Rulemaking. Last week, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and the American Petroleum Institute (API) submitted comments on the National Wildlife Refuge’s (NWR) advanced notice of proposed rulemaking to prepare an environmental impact [...]
Issues WildEarth Guardians Sues Fish and Wildlife Service over Gunnison’s Prairie Dog. This week, WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in federal court. According to WildEarth Guardians, the FWS did not use the [...]
Issues The Lesser Prairie-Chicken and Circumventing Public Oversight. On April 15, 2014 The Hill featured a guest column from Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA) President Mike McDonald. McDonald commented on sue and settle tactics, specifically the legal battle between the [...]
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 [...]