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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Oklahoma AG sues over lesser prairie chicken
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance on Monday filed a lawsuit against
the federal government, accusing the Department of the Interior and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of “colluding” with environmental groups
to bypass public rule-making procedures to enact endangered species
regulations. The lawsuit is Pruitt’s latest salvo against so-called “sue and
settle” techniques, wherein agencies are accused of reaching friendly
settlements of lawsuits filed by special-interest groups. Pruitt and
Domestic Energy Partners — an Oklahoma-based group
representing oil and gas companies and royalty owners — say those
settlements amount to using the court system to cut state regulators and
other interested parties out of the rule-making process. Pruitt has made similar allegations against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over energy and environmental regulations. The lawsuit stems from a settlement reached in a 2010 lawsuit by Wild
Earth Guardians, “which alleged the Fish and Wildlife Service did not
meet deadlines in determining the listing of 251 species,” The Oklahoman‘s Jay Marks reports. The federal agencies’ settlements, Pruitt argues, would undermine a $26
million conservation plan the “State of Oklahoma, along with other
states and private industry” were considering for the Lesser Prairie
Chicken...more
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