Green groups sue over Trump rollback of habitat protections for endangered species
Environmental advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its move last week to roll back protections for endangered species’ habitats. The Center for Biological Diversity, Columbia Riverkeeper, Conservation Law Foundation, Conservation Northwest, Friends of the Wild Swan, Oregon Wild, Sierra Club, Swan View Coalition and WildEarth Guardians filed the lawsuit.
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Environmental advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its move last week to roll back protections for endangered species’ habitats. The Center for Biological Diversity, Columbia Riverkeeper, Conservation Law Foundation, Conservation Northwest, Friends of the Wild Swan, Oregon Wild, Sierra Club, Swan View Coalition and WildEarth Guardians filed the lawsuit. They argue that the Trump administration’s move “discards a longstanding and critical regulatory protection for imperiled wildlife based upon an irrational and unsupported interpretation” of the Endangered Species Act. The groups said in court that the move would “undermine the Act’s extraordinary record of success in preventing the extinction of and recovering threatened and endangered species.” Last week, the Trump administration took away a key protection for endangered and threatened species.
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- Environmental advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its move last week to roll back protections for endangered species’ habitats. The Center for Biological Diversity, Columbia Riverkeeper, Conservation Law Foundation, Conservation Northwest, Friends of the Wild Swan, Oregon Wild, Sierra Club, Swan View Coalition and WildEarth Guardians filed the lawsuit.
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Green groups sue over Trump rollback of habitat protections for endangered species
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