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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMassachusetts To Sue Trump Administration Over Rollback Of Endangered Species Act
BOSTON (CBS/AP) Massachusetts and California say theyll go to court to fight the Trump administrations overhaul of the Endangered Species Act.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday that they planned to sue. It came hours after the administration announced broad changes to the way the government would enforce endangered species protections.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/08/12/endangered-species-act-trump-lawsuit-massachusetts-healey/?fbclid=IwAR16YKS5X3aMnk0jSa4wafMWeSMPW7JLSw5xH6wx6AmFJs4kpl3yq5hrAJQ
spooky3
(34,401 posts)To help it mount a legal challenge. Anyone who can contribute even a little is encouraged to do so.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)animals than people. Public transportation stinks,traffic is at gridlock,and there is virtually NO affordable housing.Give me a break.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Probably Mass officials are capable of doing 2 things at once? Or maybe the ill-served populace needs to yell louder and get out in the streets? Why do our endangered species have to be the scapegoat for all things wrong in government?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)recreation,not animals.
Hekate
(90,538 posts)It is definitely part of the calculus in California.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Plus promoting tourism IS NOT Healy's job, that is the job of the state governor, as is all the other things you claimed Healy should do.
Healy's job is to assess whether changes made nationally or in states that can affect Massachusetts are legal (the governor can't do that). The lawsuit is within what her job entails.
Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)Green Line
(1,123 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)the listed activities, the governor does.
femmedem
(8,196 posts)Not only that, but we all depend on healthy ecosystems. We're suffering massive losses of insects, for example, with repercussions up and down the food chain.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The disgusting thing is the people best positioned to survive extinction level events are the rich. They can afford to build isolated, fortified structures to protect themselves and whoever they view as important.
When we no longer have bees and other insects and birds to pollinate food plants and transport seeds to new locations where those seeds can flourish, then massive amounts of people will starve. Those that don't starve will be killed for money or possessions. Immigration will become a problem that will be 10,000 fold what it is now, as large swaths of land become completely uninhabitable by any living thing. People will kill each other just for precious food as a Darwinian regime decendants upon the entire world. The rich people that do manage to survive that will breed with other rich people that survived in their hideouts, everyone else will be gone, the world will be a poorer place.