Weekly Newsletter |May 17, 2019 Issues 2020 DOI appropriations bill ignores agency reshuffle, funds Sage-Grouse conservation. On Wednesday, the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee passed a bill that would send more than $37.2 billion in fiscal 2020 to a [...]
Weekly Newsletter |May 10, 2019 Issues FWS Eases American Burying Beetle Protections. Last week, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed easing protections for the American burying beetle, downlisting the beetle to threatened from endangered under the Endangered Species Act [...]
Weekly Newsletter | April 26, 2019 Issues Coalition seeks court order to halt development of sage-grouse habitat. Late last week, four conservation groups asked a federal court to stop the Interior Department (DOI) from implementing new changes to Obama-era greater [...]
Weekly Newsletter | April 19, 2019 Issues FWS backtracks on sage-grouse ESA listing. The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is reopening the formal rulemaking process to consider whether a distinct population of greater sage-grouse along the California-Nevada border should be [...]
Weekly Newsletter | April 12, 2019 Issues Outcome of Bernhardt confirmation. On Thursday, the Senate voted to confirm David Bernhardt as the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Secretary. Senators voted 56-41, largely along party lines, in favor of Mr. Bernhardt’s confirmation. [...]
Weekly Newsletter | April 5, 2019 Issues Mayor defends energy industry’s efforts to mitigate effects of development. This week, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing focused on ‘Lessons from Across the Nation: State and Local [...]
Weekly Newsletter | March 29 2019 Issues Environmentalist groups sue over BLM sage-grouse management revisions. After the long awaited sage-grouse land management plan changes were finalized, a coalition of environmental groups have decided to file a lawsuit in Idaho alleging [...]
Weekly Newsletter | March 22, 2019 Issues Interior announces changes to sage-grouse bird protections. The Trump administration has finalized revisions to Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans and Republicans and Democrats are lining up to weigh in on the final [...]