Trump administration sued for failing to protect green sea turtles from climate change

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Several environmental groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming several agencies in the Trump administration have failed to protect green sea turtle habitat as required by the Endangered Species Act.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, says the turtles' nesting beaches in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as their ocean habitat, face threats from sea level rise brought on by climate change and plastic pollution, according to a news release from the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs.

Other plaintiffs are the Sea Turtle Oversight Protection and the Turtle Island Restoration Network. The lawsuit asks the court to rule that several federal agencies are in violation of the Endangered Species Act and order them to designate sites – unspecified as yet –as critical habitat for the turtles.

Defendants include:

Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

Margaret Everson, principal deputy director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Chris Oliver, assistant administrator for fisheries at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

National Marine Fisheries Service

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[Iliyah]

1. t-rump . . .

1 million lawsuits will ensue. . . and well deserve. Even all the rightwing judges won't be able to shield him, because there will to many complaints. Karma.

[walkingman]

2. It's pretty obvious that Trump is doing everything possible to destroy the environment and

it is intentional and in your face. He know that there is nothing the public can do to stop him. Congress is controlled by corporations on both sides of the aisle.