Environmental organizations decried the move as 'a profound and disturbing end run'. If passed, it could provide $500 million over ten years in assistance.
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Maine lawmakers using federal spending bill to delay lobster restrictions
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine's congressional delegation is using the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill to try to delay for six years new protections
Maine's lobster fishery will have much longer to comply with federal rules aimed at reducing the risks to the endangered North Atlantic right whale population, if a government spending bill clears the U.S. Congress this week.
Maine lawmakers pushed for a provision that would block stricter federal regulations aimed at protecting right whales from entanglements in fishing gear.
(The Center Square) – Maine’s congressional delegation has added a provision to a federal omnibus spending bill delaying new protections for critically endangered north Atlantic right whales, in effort to
Environmental organizations decried the move as 'a profound and disturbing end run'. If passed, it could provide $500 million over ten years in assistance.
A provision of the spending bill now making its way through Congress would halt new regulations of Maine's lobster industry while work is done to develop gear that is potentially less dangerous to endangered whales.
PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine's congressional delegation is using the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill to try to delay for six years new protections for endangered whales to protect Maine's lobster industry.
Officials in Maine will use the federal spending bill to delay the new protections for whales that are endangered. The protections would have negatively affected the lobster industry.
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