Weekly Newsletter |June 21, 2019 Issues Sage-grouse amendments in spending minibus fail in rules committee. Ahead of this week’s spending package debate, House lawmakers introduced dozens of proposed amendments to the so-called minibus that includes measures to fund the Department [...]
Weekly Newsletter |June 14, 2019 Issues Lawsuit seeks formal determination on ESA status for lesser prairie chicken. This week, a coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Interior Department (DOI) in an effort to force the agency [...]
Weekly Newsletter |June 7, 2019 Issues DOJ defends sage-grouse plan revisions. The Trump administration fully complied with environmental laws in revising Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans and should be allowed to continue implementing them, government attorneys assert in new [...]
Weekly Newsletter |May 24, 2019 Issues Interior-EPA Appropriation bill passes despite “misleading” sage grouse language. The House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines 30-21 on Wednesday in approving a $37.3 billion fiscal 2020 spending bill for the Interior Department (DOI) [...]
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 [...]