Breaking news: 17 states sue Trump administration for weakening Endangered Species Act
Today, 17 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and New York City
filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from making harmful changes to how the Endangered Species Act, the bedrock law that protects endangered and threatened animal species and their habitats, is implemented by the federal government.
The HSUS and a coalition of animal protection and conservation organizations represented by Earthjustice
filed a similar lawsuit last month seeking to overturn the changes. We are pleased to see the attorneys general of 17 states, led by California, Massachusetts and Maryland – along with those of two major cities – join their legal firepower with ours in what is shaping up to be one of the most important animal protection fights of the century.
“We’re coming out swinging to defend this consequential law — humankind and the species with whom we share this planet depend on it,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “Now is the time to strengthen our planet’s biodiversity, not to destroy it.”
More:
https://blog.humanesociety.org/2019...ion-for-weakening-endangered-species-act.html