Issues Senate GOP says FWS' mitigation plans overstep its authority. Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife told Interior Department officials at a hearing this week that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's [...]
Issues IPAA submits request to extend comment deadline for public review of ESA Compensatory Mitigation Policy. IPAA and others submitted a request to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week to extend the comment deadline for the public review period of [...]
Issues IPAA Submits Comments on FWS and NMFS Draft Revision to Habitat Conservation Planning Handbook. This week, IPAA submitted comments on the joint U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) draft revision to their Habitat [...]
Issues FWS proposes endangered listing for Texas hornshell. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Tuesday to list the Texas hornshell as an endangered species. A freshwater mussel species found in New Mexico and Texas, the Texas hornshell is the [...]
Issues IPAA holds mitigation meetings in Washington, DC. On July 14, IPAA and representatives from multiple member companies conducted a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss the Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed revisions to its mitigation policy. On March 8, [...]
Issues Congressional Leaders Speak Out on Revised Mitigation Policy. This week, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) sent a letter to Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requesting the withdrawal of [...]
Issues In Wyoming, energy producers and conservationists look to tackle mitigation. The future of mitigation is playing out in Wyoming, as energy companies and conservationists look for opportunities to collaborate while the federal government finalizes its mitigation policy. As reported [...]
Issues Public comment open again for the burying beetle. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted in the Federal Register an invitation for public comment on incidental take permit applications for the American burying beetle “resulting from activities [...]