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 [...]
Issues IPAA comments on renewed action aimed at listing Texas lizard. The dunes sagebrush lizard flooded back into conversations about the Endangered Species Act (ESA) this week when the Center for Biological Diversity and the Defenders of Wildlife filed a [...]
Issues Texas regulators announce re-write of dunes sagebrush lizard conservation plan. Five years after its implementation, state officials this week announced they plan to scrap the Texas Conservation Plan and write a new one from scratch. “The more we looked [...]
Issues Dunes sagebrush lizard causing problems for Texas sand miners. A thin, three-inch long lizard, the dunes sagebrush lizard, inhabits one particular type of sand found in Texas’ Permian Basin – a region that supplies more than 20 percent of [...]
Issues Dunes sagebrush lizard making headlines again in Texas. The conservation of the dunes sagebrush lizard is up for debate again in the Permian Basin. After the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the species under the Endangered Species Act [...]
Issues Lesser Prairie Chicken Population Increases Again. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), the group tasked with overseeing the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-wide Conservation Plan, released its second annual report this week. The report indicated the prairie chicken's [...]
Issues BLM has yet to craft sage grouse policies for oil and gas lease sales. As highlighted in news reports this week, five months after Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced the federal government had found a way to balance drilling [...]
On April 21, 2014, IPAA and a coalition of regional and national oil and gas trade associations filed their principal brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. Jewell - a lawsuit brought by group of environmental plaintiffs in the United States [...]