WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2016. Two conservation groups filed a lawsuitagainst the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today over its failure to protect the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act. Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity and allies formally petitioned the Service in August 2014 to protect the monarch as a “threatened” species following a 90 percent population decline over the preceding two decades. In December 2014, the Service determined that protection…
