The proposed changes include the elimination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s “blanket rule” that automatically ...

When President Donald Trump attempted to weaken the Endangered Species Act during his first administration, he was up against ...

The proposed changes, coupled with the mass firing of dedicated staff at US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service, ...

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President Donald Trump's administration is moving to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live.

The Trump administration plans to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species in a move environmentalists say would lead to the extinction of critically endangered species ...

“This administration is restoring the Endangered Species Act to its original intent,” Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable species.

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

A Washington state-based conservation group filed a lawsuit this week in an effort to speed up the federal government’s review of a proposal to list king salmon as threatened or endangered across the ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...