Issues Nevada Attorney General, counties allege sage grouse protections were politically driven. Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has joined with nine Nevada counties, ranchers, and miners in their third lawsuit against the Obama Administration over the federal government's sage grouse [...]
Issues Settlement requires FWS to study impacts of two common herbicides. In a settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to study the effects of two common weed killers, glyphosate and atrazine, on [...]
Issues IPAA talks ESA at Planning Conference. This week, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) invited experts on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to their 2016 Strategic Planning Conference. This included a panel on pollinators and a presentation by [...]
Issues ICYMI: New species page on the monarch butterfly. IPAA has created a new species page for the monarch butterfly. In March 2015, IPAA submitted joint comments with the American Petroleum Institute (API) to the Fish and Wildlife Service in response to [...]
Issues IPAA files intent to sue over American burying beetle. The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), alongside fellow petitioners the American Stewards of Liberty, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Steven W. Carothers, notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]
Issues Fish and Wildlife asks judge to reverse lesser prairie chicken delisting ruling. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has asked a federal judge in Texas to rethink his ruling that overturned the agency’s March 2014 decision to list the [...]
Issues IPAA comments on Interior’s flaw land-use plan. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the greater sage-grouse did not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act while simultaneously announcing new plans to limit land use activities on [...]
This week, IPAA President and CEO Barry Russell wrote in The Hill on the recent decision to not list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act and the Department’s federal land use plans in the grouse’s 11-state habitat. According to [...]