The government’s being hauled into court over garter snakes. The Center for Biological Diversity, a group whose complaint sparked an Oklahoma Bar Association ethics investigation of former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has sued the Trump administration.
The Center wants the government to protect the garter snake’s critical habitat in New Mexico and Arizona. The suit was filed in federal court in Tucson, Arizona and accused the Fish and Wildlife Service of endangering the northern Mexican garter snake and the narrow-headed garter snake.
The lawsuit claims the population of both snakes are low in the two states. Both were put in the Endangered Species Act list in 2014. The Center contends the government should do more to protect the rivers that the snakes rely on.