WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is finalizing major changes Monday to the way it enforces the landmark Endangered Species Act, a move it says will reduce regulatory burden but critics charge will drive more creatures to extinction.
The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping save the bald eagle, California condor and scores of other animals and plants from extinction since President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1973. At least 10 attorneys general joined conservation groups in protesting an early draft of the changes, saying they put more wildlife at greater risk of extinction.
The final rule broadly sticks to those changes, according to a person briefed on the changes who was not authorized to publicly speak about them."This effort to gut protections for endangered and threatened species has the same two features of most Trump administration actions: it's a gift to industry, and it's illegal. We'll see the Trump administration in court about it," Drew Caputo, a vice president of litigation for the conservation advocacy group Earthjustice.
He is going to keep destroying this planet at our expense
Stop killing our planet and it’s inhabitants for reasons of greed.
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Long needed. The spotted owl nearly killed the northwest timber industry and ended many careers. In my county, the habitat for the Western Grey Squirrel has delayed the cross base freeway for 14 years after millions were spent. I have two living in my yard!
NOOOOOOOO!!!
Oh well. Trump didn’t like them anyway.
The law specifically states it is to protect imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development.
This would work if he were King. The President cannot change a law passed by Congress and signed into law by a former president.
trump will drive us all to extinction. He is dangerous.
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This shit happens when u put uneducated people in power !! YQG
Will it drive Trump creatures to extinction?
The environment or anything that might represent a greater good, means nothing. We are doom to perish with it.
Take notice Trump voter's he even hates animals!
Guess they don't care
So hard to imagine why. 🙄
This is it. GOP knows realDonaldTrump is losing the next election. They don’t give a shit about re-election at this point, so they’re doing every hateful thing they can to spite anti-Trump voters. This is putting the nail in the coffin for independent voters. TrumpIsADisgrace
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Meanwhile Trump is asking people to ignore the health warning on Roundup weed killer linking it to cancer. Sounds like he wants to kill people and animals.
How come they can only undo what has been done? SHAME on every one of you WhiteHouse!!!
I really hope people under age 30 are paying attention. The 2020 election will determine their entire future.
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Trump Cultists - please, defend Trump de-regulating something as important as the Endangered Species Act.
Maybe they became critics because it will objectively drive more creatures to extinction and not vice versa (i.e. being critics colored their conclusion).
Everything the Trump administration touches dies. They are Hell bent on destroying this country.
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