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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 13 2019, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the endangered-species-are-humanity's-coal-mine-canaries dept.

U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act

The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would change the way the Endangered Species Act is applied, significantly weakening the nation's bedrock conservation law and making it harder to protect wildlife from the multiple threats posed by climate change.

The new rules would make it easier to remove a species from the endangered list and weaken protections for threatened species, the classification one step below endangered. And, for the first time, regulators would be allowed to conduct economic assessments — for instance, estimating lost revenue from a prohibition on logging in a critical habitat — when deciding whether a species warrants protection.

Critically, the changes would also make it more difficult for regulators to factor in the effects of climate change on wildlife when making those decisions because those threats tend to be decades away, not immediate.

Over all, the revised rules appear very likely to clear the way for new mining, oil and gas drilling, and development in areas where protected species live.

Also at NPR.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @11:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @11:46AM (#879578)

    It would probably help if your reply actually addressed the arguments made in the original post. I agree you didn't deserve a troll mod, but none of your sarcasm addressed the facts of what the OP stated. You made a moral argument agaisnt a legal claim and a factual statement. It is definitely easier to pump up short term growth by disregarding environmental factors and the American Indians did not have Constitutional protections that the OP claims Americans are suppossed to have. It is unclear if OP would agree or disagree with other enivromental laws that prevent you from polluting your own land, so that could have been a fair argument.

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