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Laxalt joins 18 State Coalition challenging Expansion of Federal Critical Habitat Definition for Endangered Species

Laxalt joins 18 State Coalition challenging Expansion of Federal Critical Habitat Definition for Endangered Species
Chuck Muth
November 30, 2016

Office of the Attorney General logo(Office of the Attorney General) – Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt joined, Tuesday, 17 other states in a lawsuit challenging new federal rules that broadly expand the definition of “critical habitat” for endangered and threatened species. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

If implemented, the new rules would allow any area currently unoccupied by an endangered species, but that could potentially host the species, to be classified as critical habitat subject to stringent regulations. The new rules also allow the federal government to prevent activities that it deems could adversely affect so-called “physical and biological features” in a regulated area, even when those “features” do not even exist in that area. For example, the federal government could declare desert land as critical habitat for a protected fish and then prevent the construction of a highway through the land, under the theory that it would prevent the future formation of a stream that might one day support the fish.

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Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt

“As we have seen countless times, this Administration’s novel rules reach well beyond anything Congress could have ever intended and will have adverse effects on individual states, businesses, and families,” said Laxalt. “In practice, these latest rules expand federal oversight to the point that the federal government could potentially designate an entire state or even multiple states as critical habitat for certain species. I will continue to protect our state from this type of unwarranted and burdensome federal overreach.”

In addition to Nevada, other states who joined this filing include: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. New Mexico was represented by its Department of Game and Fish in the filing.

 

The Office of the Attorney General is headed by Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt. The office’s primary role is to serve the citizens of Nevada and to work to make the state a stronger, safer and freer place to live. Visit its website at AG.NV.gov.

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