Trump administration reduces protections for endangered species again

The Trump administration has further reduced protections for endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). That law prohibits any “take” of endangered species, which it defines as to “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.” The administration recently repealed a previous definition of...

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