The state of Alaska and the North Slope Borough have sued the federal government to remove ringed seals’ Endangered Species Act protections. via AlaskaBeacon
large swaths of the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea and some nearshore portions of the Beaufort Sea.The listings and critical habitat designations followed a lengthy legal administrative and legal process that started with listing petitions filed in 2008.
In the lawsuit, the state and borough argue that they have suffered “actual, concrete injuries” as a result of the listing. Those include interference with oil and gas activities, mining and mineral production, navigational dredging, construction activities, commercial fishing and subsistence hunting and fishing, the lawsuit said.
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