California sues Trump administration over rollback of Endangered Species Act
LA TimesCalifornia and 16 other states on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s weakening of the Endangered Species Act, a landmark law that has ensured the survival of the California condor, the grizzly bear and other animals close to extinction. In a statement, Becerra said the administration’s rollback of the Endangered Species Act could have major repercussions for California, which has more than 300 species listed as endangered or threatened — more than any other mainland state. “The only thing we want to see extinct are the beastly policies of the Trump administration putting our ecosystems in critical danger.” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist, has defended the new rules as a necessary modernization of a 46-year-old law that administration officials have called overly restrictive and expensive to follow. In Western states especially, where the federal government oversees large swaths of land that’s home to endangered species, the oil and gas industry, as well as farmers, loggers and ranchers, have fought to weaken the law.
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