Trump Slapped With First Lawsuit After Endangered Species Act Rollback
Source: Huffington Post
08/21/2019 02:37 pm ET Updated 20 minutes ago
The new rules are a “breathtaking” and “illegal” attack on the bedrock conservation law, an Earthjustice attorney said.
By Chris D’Angelo
Eight environmental groups on Wednesday filed what will likely be the first of many lawsuits to block the Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul of the Endangered Species Act.
The 37-page complaint, filed by Earthjustice in the U.S District Court of Northern California, comes just over a week after the Interior Department finalized new rules that significantly weaken the 1973 law, arguably America’s most important tool for protecting imperiled plants and animals.
The ESA rule changes make it easier for federal agencies to remove species from the protected list, allow for economic impacts to be considered when making decisions about granting species protection, and limit agencies’ ability to account for the impacts of future climate change. They also diminish protections for future threatened species and revise how agencies go about designating habitat as critical to species’ long-term survival.
The rollback comes amid a human-caused biodiversity crisis that has pushed up to 1 million species around the globe to the brink of extinction.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/environmental-groups-lawsuit-endangered-species-act_n_5d5d7c0be4b03b44f416160b
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