Massachusetts To Sue Trump Administration Over Rollback Of Endangered Species Act

[orleans]

BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Massachusetts and California say they’ll go to court to fight the Trump administration’s 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]

1. Natural Resources Defense Council is also seeking $

To help it mount a legal challenge. Anyone who can contribute even a little is encouraged to do so.

[virgogal]

2. Massachusetts seem to be worrying more about

animals than people. Public transportation stinks,traffic is at gridlock,and there is virtually NO affordable housing.Give me a break.

[Doremus]

3. So those other things are bad ergo let endangered species go extinct?

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]

4. Healy seems to be worried about tourism and

recreation,not animals.

[Hekate]

7. Where I live, tourism is dependent on a pristine environment. Go figure.

It is definitely part of the calculus in California.

[Blue_true]

8. Tourists don't go to places with foul water and barren forests.

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]

11. Not really a good try there.

[Green Line]

5. Sounds more like we should be getting rid of Charlie Baker

[Blue_true]

9. The poster completely over looked that the AG does not control

the listed activities, the governor does.

[femmedem]

6. Public transportation etc can be repaired; extinction is forever.

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]

10. All the problems that you pointed out are real.

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.