Weekly Newsletter |July 26, 2019 Issues Conservation groups to sue over West Texas lizard as ESA listing decision looms. Last week, two conservation groups filed a notice to sue the Trump administration over the dunes sagebrush lizard’s Endangered Species Act [...]
Weekly Newsletter |July 19, 2019 Issues New sage-grouse management plan proposed in Wyoming. For the first time, Wyoming’s greater sage- grouse team is recommending the governor adopt an explicit policy in his executive order to increase the bird’s population and [...]
Weekly Newsletter |July 12, 2019 Issues Victory for property rights in Supreme Court fight over gopher frog. A long-running legal battle over Louisiana’s dusky gopher frog ended quietly in a court settlement late last week. After scientists identified a plot [...]
Weekly Newsletter |July 5, 2019 Issues IPAA files comments as FWS weighs burying beetle downlisting. In May, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed easing protections for the American Burying Beetle, downlisting it to threatened from endangered under the Endangered [...]
Weekly Newsletter |June 21, 2019 Issues Sage-grouse amendments in spending minibus fail in rules committee. Ahead of this week’s spending package debate, House lawmakers introduced dozens of proposed amendments to the so-called minibus that includes measures to fund the Department [...]
Weekly Newsletter |June 14, 2019 Issues Lawsuit seeks formal determination on ESA status for lesser prairie chicken. This week, a coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Interior Department (DOI) in an effort to force the agency [...]
Weekly Newsletter |June 7, 2019 Issues DOJ defends sage-grouse plan revisions. The Trump administration fully complied with environmental laws in revising Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans and should be allowed to continue implementing them, government attorneys assert in new [...]
Weekly Newsletter |May 24, 2019 Issues Interior-EPA Appropriation bill passes despite “misleading” sage grouse language. The House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines 30-21 on Wednesday in approving a $37.3 billion fiscal 2020 spending bill for the Interior Department (DOI) [...]