[MCN] RELEASE: Another Endangered Species Act Rollback Proposed by Trump Administration Today

[Matthew Koehler]

Another Friday, another Trump administration rollback....
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Trump Administration Proposes Yet Another Rollback to the Endangered
Species Act

Narrowing the definition of habitat will make it harder to restore degraded
areas in order to recover species


Despite devastating reports of catastrophic species loss, today the Trump
administration proposed
<https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/proposed-definition-of-habitat-web-version.pdf>
a second round of rollbacks to regulations that would continue to undermine
the Endangered Species Act—America's most effective law for saving
imperiled wildlife from extinction.

Specifically, the new regulation proposed today by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service would redefine
the definition of “habitat,” which would greatly weaken protections for
threatened and endangered species listed under the ESA. *In light of
today’s latest proposed rollback to the Endangered Species Act, WildEarth
Guardians issued the following statements: *

“This rule is yet another cut in the death by a thousand cuts that the
Trump administration is inflicting on the Endangered Species Act,” said
Lindsay Larris, wildlife program director for WildEarth Guardians. “The
continued weakening of the Act makes it clear where this administration's
priorities lie: with appeasing their cronies in extractive industries and
plundering public lands."

“Narrowing the definition of habitat will make it harder to restore
degraded areas in order to recover species,” said Taylor Jones, endangered
species advocate for WildEarth Guardians. “In the midst of an extinction
crisis, we need more habitat protections, not less."

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