#endangered-species-act
#endangered-species-act
[ follow ]
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoTrump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act
Federal proposal weakens ESA protections by allowing economic considerations in habitat designations, narrowing critical habitat, delaying protections, and rescinding automatic protections for threatened species.
Environment
fromwww.npr.org
1 week agoTrump administration seeks to roll back protections for imperiled species and habitat
The administration seeks to roll back Endangered Species Act protections by eliminating the automatic "blanket rule" and requiring species-specific safeguards, risking delayed protections for imperiled wildlife.
fromLos Angeles Times
4 weeks agoPlan to kill 450,000 owls creates odd political bedfellows - loggers and environmentalists
Some logging advocates are afraid nixing the plan will slow down timber harvesting. Roughly 2.6 million acres of timberlands in western Oregon managed by the Bureau of Land Management are governed by resource management plans contingent on the barred owl cull going forward, according to Travis Joseph, president and chief executive of the American Forest Resource Council, a trade association representing mills, loggers, lumber buyers and other stakeholders in the region.
Environment
fromThe Atlantic
3 months agoWill Manatees Survive the Trump Administration?
It is home to 4,300 species, including many of the state's remaining manatees, whose large, paddle-tailed bodies graze slowly through the shallows. For decades, the lagoon has also been a destination for Florida's municipal sewage. State law long ago aimed to stop much of the flow from wastewater plants, but in practice continued to allow dumping during heavy rains. Residential septic tanks have kept leaching into the water, too. Over time, that pollution fed algae blooms that choked out the area's seagrass-manatees' main food source.
Environment
[ Load more ]