#environmentallaw — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #environmentallaw, aggregated by home.social.
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The environmental impact of multinational firms in Africa
Pargal, S. & Wheeler, D. Informal regulation of industrial pollution in developing countries: evidence from Indonesia. J. Polit.…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #developingworld #Economics #environment #Environmentaleconomics #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Atmospheric warming contributions from airborne microplastics and nanoplastics
Thompson, R. C. et al. Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?. Science 386, 6720 (2024).…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Atmosphericchemistry #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeimpacts #environment #Environmentalimpact #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The #GreatPacificGarbagePatch is a #plastic #trash nightmare. It is also part of a much bigger, problem.
Out in the #PacificOcean, between #Hawaii & #California, is the Great #Pacific #Garbage Patch, a swirl of #PlasticTrash >2X the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind [& inhaled].
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #microplastics #PublicHealth #health #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/climate/microplastics-nanoplastics-air-global-warming -
Atmospheric warming contributions from airborne microplastics and nanoplastics
Thompson, R. C. et al. Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?. Science 386, 6720 (2024).…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Atmosphericchemistry #climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeimpacts #Environment #environmentalimpact #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general
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While Washington guts every protection that ever restrained a corporation, a Green Party MP in Wellington walks into parliament and says: a whale is a person. The Tohorā Oranga Bill would grant Pacific whales freedom of movement, habitat restoration, protected social structures. 22% of New Zealand's marine mammals face extinction.
#Nature #Law #WhalePersonhood #NewZealand #IndigenousRights #TohorāOranga #EnvironmentalLaw #PacificOcean #Conservation #lgbtqia #trans
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Artificial intelligence to support cross-disciplinary climate change research
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China Yang Ou & Yong Liu Institute for Carbon Neutrality, P…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateandEarthsystemmodelling #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changemitigation #Climate-changepolicy #environment #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The section responsible for #EnvironmentalLaw lost about a third of its staff. And the department’s #CivilRights Division lost more than half. And the Bureau of #Prisons – which the DOJ’s internal watchdog has said is in a “staffing crisis” – shed more than 2,200 employees, about 6% of its workforce. The number of inmates in federal custody has remained largely unchanged.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #DOJ #NationalSecurity #Trump #criminal
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Ocean warming weakens the sea–land breeze in coastal megacities
SST coercion Conventional low-resolution SST datasets fail to resolve localized warming disparities in nearshore zones, whereas kilometre-scale resolution…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #ClimateandEarthsystemmodelling #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #sustainability
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The climate crisis is becoming a legal obligation, not a political choice
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The underappreciated importance of small wetlands in global methane emissions
Lan, X., Thoning, K.W. & Dlugokencky, E.J. Trends in Globally-averaged CH4, N2O, and SF6 determined from NOAA Global…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Biogeochemistry #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #environment #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The underappreciated importance of small wetlands in global methane emissions
Lan, X., Thoning, K.W. & Dlugokencky, E.J. Trends in Globally-averaged CH4, N2O, and SF6 determined from NOAA Global…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Biogeochemistry #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science
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If #EmperorPenguins & #AntarcticFurSeals are suffering, Aguilar said, it means that humans should be worried too.
#climate #environment #GlobalWarming #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #MarineLife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science
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“#EmperorPenguins are a sentinel species that tell us about our changing world & how well we are controlling #GreenhouseGas #emissions,” Philip Trathan, a member of the IUCN specialist group that determined the species’ #conservation status, said in a statement Thursday.
#climate #environment #GlobalWarming #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #MarineLife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science
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Two iconic #SouthPole species, the #EmperorPenguin & the #AntarcticFurSeal, have been officially declared #endangered by the world’s leading #conservation authority — a consequence of dramatic changes to their #habitats caused by #GlobalWarming.
#climate #environment #wildlife #MarineLife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/04/09/emperor-penguin-endangered-antarctic-fur-seal/ -
Wildfire risk for species under climate change
Thomas, C. D. et al. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427, 145–148 (2004). Article CAS Google Scholar …
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Biodiversity #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science
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“When that happens, you often see #GrayWhales in a more desperate search for new areas to feed,” Calambokidis said. “That’s the most likely context for this whale.”
Researchers will attempt to examine the whale, possibly as soon as Monday.
#science #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EndangeredSpecies #ecosystems #MarineLife #whales #law #EnvironmentalLaw
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The larger issue that the population of #GrayWhales in the eastern part of the #PacificOcean has faced since 2019 is reduced #food availability in the northern Bering & Chukchi seas off Alaska’s coast, John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, told AP.
“Gray whales are facing a major crisis & the heart of it does seem to be #feeding on their prey in the #Arctic,” he said.
#science #ClimateChange #EndangeredSpecies #MarineLife #whales #law #EnvironmentalLaw
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The #whale was discovered Saturday near Raymond, Washington, in the Willapa River, which feeds into the #ocean at Willapa Bay. A number of #GrayWhales are currently in the bay on their 5,000-mile (8,000-kilometer) spring migration from birthing grounds in Baja California, Mexico, north to feeding grounds in Alaska.
#science #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EndangeredSpecies #ecosystems #MarineLife #whales #law #EnvironmentalLaw
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A juvenile #GrayWhale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river was found dead, & an official with a #marine mammal research group suspects #hunger may have driven the whale to new hunting grounds as the species’ population declines.
#science #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EndangeredSpecies #ecosystems #MarineLife #whales #law #EnvironmentalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/gray-whale-dies-washington-river-ba070a4060f2f48f0e4533cc14b944b2 -
…ALL members of the committee are #Trump appointees, including #Interior Secretary #DougBurgum & #EPA Administrator #LeeZeldin.
The God Squad last met in 1992 to consider whether Oregon timber sales threatened the northern spotted owl, where exemptions were granted only after lengthy hearings. [this single meeting lasted all of 15 minutes]#law #EnvironmentalLaw #science #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
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…The center said the decision will also hurt the populations of #SeaTurtles, #WhoopingCranes & other #endangered #wildlife. The advocacy group challenged the Tuesday meeting in court, but a judge ruled last week that the meeting could go forward.
Environmental advocates blasted the committee’s unanimous approval of the exemption.#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #whales #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
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The #Biden admin had sought to restrict #oil & #gas activity in the gulf by seeking to declare nearly 30k square miles as critical #habitat for the #RicesWhale species, at the urging of marine scientists. The 2023 proposal was never finalized.
The exemption will nevertheless have outsize impact on #EndangeredSpecies because #oil companies will not need to make efforts to limit their impacts on them.#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #conservation #wildlife #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange
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The #EndangeredSpeciesAct has NEVER been used to STOP #oil #drilling in the gulf, so doing away with protections will NOT meaningfully impact the amount of oil produced there, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group.
“I don’t think anyone honestly thinks that there’s a legitimate #NationalSecurity issue here,” Hartl said.
#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #wildlife #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
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#US panel votes to exempt #GulfOfMexico #drilling from #EndangeredSpeciesAct
The committee — nicknamed the “God Squad” for its ability to decide the fate of #species — voted to exempt #oil & #gas firms from federal #wildlife protections, citing the #IranWar.#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
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Building façade photovoltaics enhance global climate resilience
Wang, J. et al. Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities. Nat. Clim.…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Energymodelling #environment #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Building façade photovoltaics enhance global climate resilience
Wang, J. et al. Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities. Nat. Clim.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Energymodelling #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science
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Building façade photovoltaics enhance global climate resilience
Wang, J. et al. Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities. Nat. Clim.…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Energymodelling #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science
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Pioneering Spanish experience in climate shelters practice
A.T.A.-M. and M.O.’s research is funded by the European Union (ERC, IMAGINE adaptation, 101039429). A.T.A.-M. and M.O.’s research…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeadaptation #EnvironmentalHealth #Environmentalimpact #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science
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Pioneering Spanish experience in climate shelters practice
A.T.A.-M. and M.O.’s research is funded by the European Union (ERC, IMAGINE adaptation, 101039429). A.T.A.-M. and M.O.’s research…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeAdaptation #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #environment #environmentalhealth #Environmentalimpact #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/490998/ -
Wind-triggered Antarctic sea-ice decline preconditioned by thinning Winter Water
Eayrs, C., Li, X., Raphael, M. N. & Holland, D. M. Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeimpacts #Cryosphericscience #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Physicaloceanography #Science
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Wind-triggered Antarctic sea-ice decline preconditioned by thinning Winter Water
Eayrs, C., Li, X., Raphael, M. N. & Holland, D. M. Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeimpacts #Cryosphericscience #environment #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Physicaloceanography #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/482800/ -
Drought amplifies warming-induced soil carbon loss in a decade-long experiment
García-Palacios, P. et al. Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming. Nat. Rev. Earth…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Biogeochemistry #ClimateChange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeimpacts #environment #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #general #Microbialecology #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The move revived a long-running debate about the paradoxical effects of #EthyleneOxide on #PublicHealth. While it plays a crucial role in sterilizing lifesaving medical devices like pacemakers & syringes, long-term exposure can cause #leukemia & other types of #cancer among people who #work in or #live near medical sterilization facilities.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #health #safety
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With Latest Rollback, the #US Essentially Has No #CleanCar Rules
The #EPA’s killing of the #EndangermentFinding caps a year of #deregulation that is likely to make #cars thirstier for #gas & less competitive globally, experts say. [absolutely true, other countries have regulations, if US cars aren’t made to meet their standards, no one can buy them anywhere but in the US. Idiotic.]
#Trump #idiocracy #business #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Climate #law #EnvironmentalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/climate/endangerment-finding-auto-emissions-regulations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Overturning the finding will “raise more havoc” than other actions by the #Trump admin to roll back environmental rules, said Ann Carlson, an #EnvironmentalLaw professor at the UCLA School of Law.
#law #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #EndangermentFinding
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Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire & its #toxic legacy Covering the world in #carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay
…A lack of state & federal #regulations allowed carpet companies & their suppliers to legally switch among different versions of stain-&-soil resistant products.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #pollution #PFAs #ForeverChemicals #chemicals #PublicHealth #Climate #people #children #fish #wildlife #river #water #soil #DrinkingWater #Alabama #Georgia
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-05-AP+Investigation+ -
The #Trump Administration exempts new #nuclear reactors from #environmental review
Geoff Brumfiel, February 2, 20263:09 PM ET
"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a #NuclearAccident.
"The exclusion announcement comes just days after NPR revealed officials at the Department of Energy had secretly rewritten environmental, safety and security rules to make it easier for the reactors to be built.
"The Department of Energy announced the change Monday in a notice in the Federal Register. It said the department would begin excluding advanced nuclear reactors from the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct. The act requires federal agencies to consider the environment when undertaking new projects and programs.
"The law also requires extensive reporting on how proposed programs might impact local ecosystems. That documentation, known as an #EnvironmentalImpactStatement, and a second lesser type of analysis, known as an #EnvironmentalAssessment, provide an opportunity for the public to review and comment on potential projects in their community."
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5696525/trump-nuclear-safety-regulations-environmental-review#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NuclearPlants #USPol #PublicReview #Secrecy #NuclearSafety #NuclearPollution #EnvironmentalImpact
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Judge Revives #WindFarm That #Trump Halted Off Martha’s Vineyard
The project, known as #VineyardWind, was already 95% complete when the Trump admin ordered construction to stop.
The ruling was the fourth legal setback that the Trump admin has suffered in its quest to throttle the country’s nascent offshore #wind industry.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #energy #RenewableEnergy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/climate/judge-offshore-wind-vineyard-massachusetts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The Federal Government has listed the Lower Murray River as a critically endangered ecosystem, in a move that has already threatened to spark a new political battle over its management. The designated area stretches nearly a thousand kilometres from western New South Wales, through Victoria and to the ocean in South Australia. It means the highly biodiverse region will now be granted stronger protections under environmental laws.
#lowermurrayriver #criticallyendangered #murraydarlingbasin #riverprotection #australianenvironment #biodiversity #environmentallaw #watermanagement
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Attorneys for Empire Wind had told the court that the project, which is ~60% complete, would face “existential risk” if it was further delayed. #Equinor, the Norwegian #energy giant developing the #WindFarm, said that if construction did not restart in the coming days it would lose >$1B in contracts & that a specialized ship needed for construction would set sail for another project.
#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #RenewableEnergy #wind
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Long-term exposure to both #pollutants is linked to #asthma, #heart & #lung #disease, & premature #death. Even moderate exposure to PM2.5 can damage the lungs about as much as smoking.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
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Long-term exposure to both #pollutants is linked to #asthma, #heart & #lung #disease, & premature #death. Even moderate exposure to PM2.5 can damage the lungs about as much as smoking.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
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Long-term exposure to both #pollutants is linked to #asthma, #heart & #lung #disease, & premature #death. Even moderate exposure to PM2.5 can damage the lungs about as much as smoking.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
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Long-term exposure to both #pollutants is linked to #asthma, #heart & #lung #disease, & premature #death. Even moderate exposure to PM2.5 can damage the lungs about as much as smoking.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
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Long-term exposure to both #pollutants is linked to #asthma, #heart & #lung #disease, & premature #death. Even moderate exposure to PM2.5 can damage the lungs about as much as smoking.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
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Fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, refers to particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, small enough to penetrate deep into the #lungs & enter the #bloodstream. #Ozone is a #smog-causing gas that forms when nitrogen dioxide & volatile organic compounds are emitted from power plants, factories & vehicles & mix in the #air on hot, sunny days.
#Trump #EPA #law #EnvironmentalLaw #PublicHealth #pollution #health
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It’s a seismic shift that runs counter to the #EPA’s mission statement, which says the agency’s core responsibility is to protect human #health & the #environment, #EnvironmentalLaw experts said.
The change could make it easier to repeal limits on these #pollutants from #coal burning power plants, #oil refineries, #steel mills & other industrial facilities across the country, emails & documents show. That would most likely lower costs for companies while resulting in dirtier #air.
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The #Trump admin is proposing to open federal #waters off the entire coastline of #California to #drilling, as well as an area off the coast of #Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #oceans #wildlife #MarineLife #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #OffshoreDrilling #oil #FossilFuels
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/climate/trump-oil-drilling-offshore-california-florida -
The #Trump admin's announcement answers calls for revisions to the #EndangeredSpecies Act from #Republicans in #Congress & industries including #oil & #gas, #mining & #agriculture. Critics argue the landmark 1973 #EnvironmentalLaw has been wielded too broadly….
But environmentalists warned the changes could cause yearslong delays in efforts to save species such as the #monarch butterfly, Florida #manatee, California #SpottedOwl & North American #wolverine.
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#Trump admin seeks to roll back #protections for imperiled species & #habitat
Trump's admin moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species & the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to #EndangeredSpecies Act regulations from the Republican's first term that were blocked under Democratic President Joe #Biden.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateCrisis
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/19/g-s1-98459/trump-administration-endangered-species-act-blanket-rule