US EditionTrump proposes to narrow Endangered Species Act protections
The proposed changes would allow economic considerations in habitat decisions and remove automatic protections for new threatened species, risking delays in recovery efforts for iconic wildlife.
- The Trump administration revived efforts to roll back protections for imperiled species and their habitats from the Endangered Species Act, undoing changes made by the Biden administration.
- The changes include eliminating automatic protections for newly classified threatened species, requiring species-specific rules instead, and considering economic impacts when designating critical habitats.
- Environmental groups warned the changes could delay efforts to save species like the monarch butterfly and California spotted owl, while groups like PERC and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation supported the revisions.
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Trump administration seeks to roll back protections for imperiled species and habitat
President Trump’s administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican’s first term that were blocked under former Democratic President Joe Biden.The proposed changes include the elimination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s “blanket rule” that automatically protects animals and plants when they are class…
The Trump administration advanced Wednesday to reverse the protections of the government of Joe Biden for endangered species and their habitats. The Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior and the National Marine Fisheries Service of the NOAA proposed to restore rules of the first Trump administration that eliminated safeguards for plants and animals threatened by human development and global warming. Specifically, it allows …
Trump administration moves to roll back some Endangered Species Act protections
The Trump administration moved Wednesday to weaken the popular Endangered Species Act in an attempt to restore changes made during the president’s first term that were later blocked by a federal judge
By Ella Nilsen, CNN - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to roll back Biden administration protections for endangered species and their habitats. The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service proposed restoring rules from the first Trump administration that eliminated safeguards for plants and animals threatened by human development and global warming. Specifically, it allows economic fact…
By Ella Nilsen, CNN - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to roll back Biden administration protections for endangered species and their habitats. The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service proposed restoring rules from the first Trump administration that eliminated safeguards for plants and animals threatened by human development and global warming. Specifically, it allows economic fact…
Trump administration seeks to roll back protections for imperiled species and their habitat
President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live. Trump's Interior Department on Wednesday proposed reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations first made during the Republican’s first…
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