Endangered animals, environmental groups among industry’s biggest foes in 2014
The sage-grouse was just one of several unique species in the way of oil and gas development in protected areas this year.
View ArticleBird’s fate shaping energy development in US West
The grouse’s huge range, covering portions of 11 states and an area more than four times as big as New England, includes vast oil, gas and coal reserves and the best type of windy, open country for...
View ArticleSage grouse scares off BLM oil, gas bidders in Nevada
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to decide early next year whether to grant a petition by conservationists to list the bird as threatened or endangered.
View ArticleCongress blocks sage grouse protections, but work goes on
President Barack Obama signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill late Tuesday with a provision that barred money from being spent on rules to protect the chicken-sized bird and three related types of grouse.
View ArticleNevada congressman criticizes Jewell over grouse
President Barack Obama signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill last week with a provision that barred money from being spent on rules to protect the greater sage grouse and two other subspecies.
View ArticleSage Grouse plan said to bar drilling on some U.S. land
With a deadline of September to decide if the chicken-sized bird is endangered, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will unveil ways the Bureau of Land Management plans to conserve the habitat. More than...
View ArticleWith no protections for Sage Grouse, focus is on land-use
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans outline measures to help sage grouse across 67 million acres of public lands throughout the West, including 12 million acres of prime habitat where strict...
View ArticleJudge: Battle to prove need to block U.S. rules on sage grouse
The groups are suing the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and asking for a temporary injunction to block the proposed rules before a trial.
View ArticleOil and gas industry sues over sage grouse drilling restrictions
BILLINGS, Mont. — The oil and gas industry on Thursday challenged in federal court drilling restrictions imposed by the Obama administration to protect a struggling bird that ranges across 11 Western...
View ArticleSage Grouse fight rises again in West
WASHINGTON — Republicans called on the Obama administration Tuesday to back off a new plan to protect the Greater Sage Grouse, a ground bird living in gas-rich regions of the U.S. high plains whose...
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