New York, California, Connecticut and Illinois have sued the Bush administration over an invasive, tree-eating beetle that has entered the U.S. as a stowaway on cargo ships via wood pallets and packaging. The four states are seeking a court order to require the Agriculture Department to examine more effective and less environmentally harmful ways to prevent the insects from entering the country, said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
September 16, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Four states sued the Bush administration Thursday over an invasive, tree-eating beetle that has entered the U.S. as a stowaway on cargo ships.
The Asian long-horned beetle, along with the emerald ash borer and the pine shoot beetle, are the culprits named in the lawsuit by attorneys general from New York, California, Connecticut and Illinois.
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