Former US Agency Heads Warn Endangered Species Act Rewrite Would Greenlight Habitat Destruction, Accelerate Extinction

Former US Agency Heads Warn Endangered Species Act Rewrite Would Greenlight Habitat Destruction, Accelerate Extinction

Seven former US government agency heads are calling on the Trump administration to reverse its reinterpretation of the Endangered Species Act.

‘One-Way Ticket to Extinction’: Trump Admin Again Guts Endangered Species Act

‘One-Way Ticket to Extinction’: Trump Admin Again Guts Endangered Species Act July 18, 2026 mrajotte September 11, 2026 Common Dreams

Bipartisan Former Wildlife Agency Leaders Defend Longstanding Endangered Species Act "Harm" Definition

Seven former leaders of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries have sent a letter to Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urging the administration to withdraw its recent rollback of the Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm.”  The bipartisan group, whose service spans Democratic and Republican administrations, argues that excluding habitat destruction from the definition of “harm” would u…