June 27, 2014 Contacts: Gavin Shire (FWS), (703) 358-2649, gavin_shire@fws.gov Connie Barclay (NOAA), (301) 427-8003, connie.barclay@noaa.gov The Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced a [...]
Issues BLM Limits Land Leasing in Sage Grouse Habitat Region. This week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a moratorium blocking oil, natural gas, and coal leasing on public lands that overlap with the Gunnison sage grouse in [...]
Issues New Mexico Jumping Mouse to Get Federal Protection. This week, the New Mexico Jumping Mouse was listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Jumping Mouse’s historical habitat consists of New Mexico, Arizona and southern Colorado. [...]
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 [...]