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 [...]
Coalition files lawsuit against federal government for failing to issue a timely determination on beetle’s status. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), American Stewards of Liberty (ASL), and Osage Producers Association have filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Fish [...]
Today, the American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) filed a Notice of Intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for violation of section 4(b)(3)(B) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) [...]