Issues BLM 2.0 Rule Struck Down by House Lawmakers. This week, the House of Representatives voted to strike down the Bureau of Land Management's Planning 2.0 rule, a part of an effort by lawmakers to eliminate certain regulations under the [...]
Issues Rusty patched bumble bee listed as an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared this week that it had listed the rusty patched bumble bee (RPBB) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), marking the [...]
Issues Key federal agency positions in the air after presidential election results. Predictions of who will fill key cabinet positions began to circulate this week following the announcement of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election early Wednesday morning. Sarah [...]
Issues IPAA Talks ESA at Midyear Meeting. IPAA held its annual midyear meeting in Colorado Springs this week, kicking off the event with a one-day conference focused on strategic planning on environment and land access issues. The conference included expert [...]
The following was originally posted on EnergyInDepth.org A new report released this week by the Western Energy Alliance and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming highlights how technological advances in drilling have substantially reduced the environmental impact of oil and gas [...]
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 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 [...]