Last month, IPAA submitted comments with the American Petroleum Institute (API), New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA), Panhandle Producers & Royalty Owners Association (PPROA), Western Energy Alliance, International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) and [...]
Issues House leader speaks out on ESA. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent a letter yesterday to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Dan Ashe and Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. In his letter, the Chairman [...]
By Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) In 2011, two environmental groups settled multi-district litigation with the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that will result in potentially hundreds of species being added to the endangered species list and the payment of expensive [...]
A comment period is currently open for the diamond darter, a fish that currently occurs within the portion of the Elk River below Sutton Dam in Kanawha and Clay Counties, West Virginia. Last year, IPAA endorsed the West Virginia Chamber [...]
Issues Senators call for response to “sue and settle” agreement. Yesterday, Senators David Vitter (R-LA), John Boozman (R-AR), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and James Inhofe (R-OK) sent a letter to U.S. FWS Director Daniel Ashe in regard to a May 2012 [...]
By Nancy Macan McNally, NESARC Approaching its 40th anniversary later this year, the Endangered Species Act originally was approved by Congress, with broad bipartisan support, to protect high profile endangered species such as the grizzly bear. Throughout the years, implementation [...]
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its first in a series of “rapid ecoregional assessments (REA)”. BLM claims these assessments will better help protect sensitive wildlife habitat and guide energy development. A copy of the REA, which was [...]
By Michael Catanzaro, managing director in FTI Consulting’s strategic communications practice The Independent Petroleum Association of America’s (IPAA) Florida meeting on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) provided a forum to discuss effective ways to minimize, even eliminate, the threat ESA poses [...]