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Press Release Energy Permitting Fund Renewal Headed for Trump’s Signature October 1, 2026 DENVER – Western Energy Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) today praised the U.S. Senate for unanimously passing a bill to extend a successful program that funds oil and natural gas permitting activities on federal lands for the next…

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.