Wildlife coalition to file suit over environmental laws on the border
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Disputes over the Department of Homeland Security’s border fence project continue. The Dallas Morning News reports that a coalition of wildlife protection groups will file a federal lawsuit next week in El Paso, challenging the department’s authority to waive state and federal laws to build a border security fence.
‘The lawsuit by the Frontera Audubon Society, the Friends of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge and the Friends of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge claims that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff violated the Constitution’s separation of powers when he waived 36 federal environmental laws to speed up construction of the fence.’
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