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Big Green’s ‘sue-and-settle’ strategy draws pushback from states, Congress

By Ron Arnold
Published April 1, 2014 4:00am ET
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Big Green’s ‘sue-and-settle’ strategy draws pushback from states, Congress
This March 2007 photo provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shows a male lesser prairie chicken in a mating stature in the Texas panhandle. (AP Photo/Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Jon McRoberts) | Jon McRoberts

Scott Pruitt is Oklahoma‘s attorney general and he’s fed up with Big Green’s outrageously destructive sue-and-settle attacks using endangered species as a weapon to obliterate America’s burgeoning oil and gas production.

Pruitt was so fed up that on March 17 he and a coalition of energy groups filed a pioneering lawsuit – The State of Oklahoma et al. v. U.S. Department of the Interior – for collusion in violating federal law.

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