BILLINGS, Mont. ? A federal judge was asked Tuesday to approve a pair of deals between the Obama administration and wildlife advocates that would require the government to consider greater protections for hundreds of imperiled animals and plants.
Federal officials signed the latest of the two agreements earlier in the day with the Center for Biological Diversity. A similar deal encompassing many of the same species was reached in May with a second group, WildEarth Guardians.
Those agreements went before U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C.
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