Letters and Comments

Dear Congressman Tipton: The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) strongly supports your efforts to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to vacate the Department of the Interior Office of Natural Resource Revenue’s (ONRR) royalty valuation rule (81 FR 43338-01 July 1, 2016). The O...

Dear Acting Secretary Haugrud, Acting Director Kurth, and Regional Director Tuggle: On behalf of the American Stewards of Liberty and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, we write to inform you of our intent to file a civil suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife......

The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) submits the following comments in response to the Interim Final Rule (IFR) issued on December 19, 2016, by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in Docket No. PHMSA-2016-0016. I...

Dear Majority Leader McConnell and Democratic Leader Schumer: The undersigned 616 groups from each of the 50 states strongly urge you to consider and pass the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 (RAA), to be introduced by Senator Portman. The RAA recently passed the House with......

Dear Mr. President: We write to you regarding the imminent lack of a quorum at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), which will occur upon the departure of Commissioner Norman C. Bay, effective February 3, 2017. The absence of a quorum will leave the agency......

IPAA submitted joint comments with API, the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, and Western Energy Alliance stating that the best scientific and commercial information available demonstrates that the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) does not meet the Endangered Species Act’s (ESA) definitions of eith...

Dear Mr. President: The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) urges the White House to expeditiously submit nominees to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to fill open seats on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that will return the Commission to a quorum....

Dear Mr. Speaker, On behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and our 9,000 members who develop over 90 percent of the nation’s oil and natural gas wells, I would like to express our strong support for use of the Congressional Review Act......

Dear Speaker Ryan: On behalf of the members of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming (PAW) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), we would like to express our support for use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal the unnecessarily burdensome regulations finalized......

The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) submits the following comments as part of the public hearing on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, scheduled for January 12, 2017. IPAA represents the thousands of companies that drill 95 percent of America’s onshore and offshore oil and natural...