Attorneys General Add Endangered Species Act Claim to Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Revisions to National Environmental Policy Act

MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • November 23, 2020

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, leading a multistate coalition, have amended their complaint challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful revised regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act to allege the regulations also violated the federal Endangered Species Act. Joining the suit are the attorneys general of 19 other states including Maine, plus the District of Columbia and Guam.