Press Releases

DENVER – Western Energy Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) today welcomed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s approval of legislation to extend a successful program that funds oil and natural gas permitting activities on federal lands, bringing Congress one step closer to preventing its expiration later this year.

DENVER – Western Energy Alliance welcomed a pair of unanimous, bipartisan votes in Congress to advance national parks and public lands conservation funding.

DENVER – A federal conservation program that directs nearly $2 billion annually to national parks and other public lands is closer to being renewed by Congress after expiring last fall.

DENVER — In an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bill to support federal employees working on oil and natural gas approvals in Bureau of Land Management offices across the West.

DENVER – Following a record $4 billion sale of federal oil and natural gas leases by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Western Energy Alliance today applauded Trump Administration for delivering on its commitment to unleash American energy.

DENVER – Western Energy Alliance today applauded the confirmation of Steve Pearce as the director of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management by the U.S. Senate.

DENVER – Legislation to support federal employees working on oil and natural gas approvals in Bureau of Land Management offices across the West took a major step forward today.

DENVER – Following an announcement by the U.S. Department of the Interior that it is rescinding the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Heath Rule from 2024, Western Energy Alliance President Melissa Simpson offered the following remarks:

Press Release Western Energy Alliance Applauds Trump Budget Proposal to Renew Conservation Fund April 9, 2026 DENVER – Western Energy Alliance this week welcomed President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposal calling on Congress to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), a critical conservation program funded by energy revenues that…

DENVER – Western Energy Alliance today praised the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for strong first-quarter oil and natural gas lease sale results in Colorado and Utah.