Trump's Budget Would End Grant Funding For State Endangered Species Projects
7 years, 1 month ago

Trump's Budget Would End Grant Funding For State Endangered Species Projects

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is looking to zero out grant funding for state efforts to recover endangered species ― even as it has stressed cooperating with states on conservation efforts. In the 2019 budget proposal released on Monday, President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommend allocating not a single dollar to the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, a program authorized by the Endangered Species Act that divvies out money to states and territories for voluntary species and habitat conservation projects on non-federal land. The ESA grants “are the principal source of support for states’ work on endangered species and for partnership between the Fish and Wildlife Service and states,” Ashe told HuffPost. In its previous budget proposal, the Trump administration requested $19.3 million for the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, which would have been a decrease of $34.1 million below the 2017 funding level.

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'This insanity has to stop': Trump-Musk funding freeze puts elephants and rhinos at risk
3 weeks, 6 days ago

'This insanity has to stop': Trump-Musk funding freeze puts elephants and rhinos at risk

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's decision to cut off funding to conservation work could put some endangered species at risk from poachers, according to environmentalists. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Center for Biological Diversity threatened to sue if the funding wasn't restored to protect at-risk species, including elephants, rhinos, freshwater turtles and monarch butterflies, reported The Guardian. “The Trump administration’s funding freeze …

Environmentalists say Trump’s energy order would subvert the Endangered Species Act
2 months, 1 week ago

Environmentalists say Trump’s energy order would subvert the Endangered Species Act

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Maine — Environmental groups concerned about loss of protections for vanishing animals see one of President Donald Trump’s early executive orders as a method of subverting the Endangered Species Act in the name of fossil fuel extraction and corporate interests. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Trump’s Monday order declaring a national …

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump
1 year ago

Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump

Associated Press  

— The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled species and shield their habitat from destruction after the measures were rolled back under former President Donald Trump. That’s already government practice, but the 2019 Trump rules caused confusion because they removed an explicit directive to ignore economic impacts, said Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Assistant Director Gina Shultz. …

Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limbo
1 year, 2 months ago

Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limbo

LA Times  

A flower from a shrub known as marrón bacora in March 2021. More than half the species protected under the Endangered Species Act are plants, but the entire plant kingdom was almost excluded from the landmark conservation law when it was adopted in 1973, according to the Congressional Record and Faith Campbell, who interviewed people involved in the bill’s passage …

Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limbo
1 year, 3 months ago

Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limbo

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. More than half the species protected under the Endangered …

Column: Humans have driven 21 more species to extinction. Here’s why we should care
1 year, 5 months ago

Column: Humans have driven 21 more species to extinction. Here’s why we should care

LA Times  

The Hawaiian Po’ouli or black-faced honeycreeper. ‘Save The Upland Combshell’ makes for a terrible bumper sticker.” Humans’ selective solicitude for endangered species was well illustrated by George F. Will in a 2017 Washington Post column inveighing against the Endangered Species Act. In a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post, he announced that his agency was preparing to bring the act …

US wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections
4 years, 6 months ago

US wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections

Associated Press  

— A Trump administration proposal released Friday would allow the government to deny habitat protections for endangered animals and plants in areas that would see greater economic benefits from being developed — a change critics said could open lands to more energy development and other activities. Other steps under Trump to scale back species rules included lifting blanket protections for …

Hatred For The Endangered Species Act Runs Deep At Trump’s Interior Department
5 years, 7 months ago

Hatred For The Endangered Species Act Runs Deep At Trump’s Interior Department

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING For 20 minutes, Wyoming lawyer William Perry Pendley railed against “environmental extremists” and boasted about the legal battles his right-wing nonprofit had waged on behalf of Western property owners. Pendley has also written that the law underlying federal species protection is used “to kill or prevent anybody from making a living on federal land.” Late last month, …

Trump Administration Weakens Endangered Species Act Amid Global Extinction Crisis
5 years, 7 months ago

Trump Administration Weakens Endangered Species Act Amid Global Extinction Crisis

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The new rules, unveiled on Monday, change how federal agencies implement portions of the conservation law, making it easier to remove recovered species from the protected list and opening the door for more drilling and other development. “The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective …

Trump overhauling enforcement of Endangered Species Act
5 years, 7 months ago

Trump overhauling enforcement of Endangered Species Act

LA Times  

The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping save the bald eagle from extinction. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is finalizing major changes Monday to the way it enforces the landmark Endangered Species Act, in a move that it says will reduce regulatory burdens but critics charge will drive more creatures to extinction. The Endangered Species Act is credited with …

Trump Administration Makes Major Changes To Protections For Endangered Species
5 years, 7 months ago

Trump Administration Makes Major Changes To Protections For Endangered Species

NPR  

Trump Administration Makes Major Changes To Protections For Endangered Species Enlarge this image toggle caption Wilfredo Lee/AP Wilfredo Lee/AP In a move that critics say will hurt plants, animals and other species as they face mounting threats, the Trump administration is making major changes to how the Endangered Species Act is implemented. U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the changes …

Official defends Trump plan to revamp Endangered Species Act
6 years, 6 months ago

Official defends Trump plan to revamp Endangered Species Act

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A top Trump administration official on Monday defended a plan to revamp the Endangered Species Act, saying the proposed changes would result in more effective, quicker decisions on species protection. “People are passionate about the Endangered Species Act, and that’s a good thing,” he said. Bernhardt told an audience at the conservative Heritage Foundation that the Obama administration …

US proposes roll back of protections for endangered species, sparks alarm
6 years, 8 months ago

US proposes roll back of protections for endangered species, sparks alarm

Firstpost  

Provisions in the law would vary protections for animals on a case-by-case basis. The US administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed sweeping changes to the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act which would roll back protections for threatened animals, sparking alarm by environmentalists. “The regulatory changes proposed today are a transparent effort to weaken the Endangered Species Act by simply …

Trump's Putting A Deadly Squeeze On Endangered Wildlife
7 years, 5 months ago

Trump's Putting A Deadly Squeeze On Endangered Wildlife

Huff Post  

Pacific walrus, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska Bill Hickey, U.S. But that’s exactly what happened earlier this month when the Trump administration denied 25 critically imperiled animals protection under the Endangered Species Act. Denying protection for these 25 species despite the imminent threat of climate change and ongoing habitat destruction is tragically typical of the Trump administration’s head-in-the-sand approach. Fish …

Donald Trump's former adviser calls for overhaul of Endangered Species Act as environmentalists' fears grow
8 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump's former adviser calls for overhaul of Endangered Species Act as environmentalists' fears grow

The Independent  

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GOP targets landmark Endangered Species Act for big changes
8 years, 2 months ago

GOP targets landmark Endangered Species Act for big changes

Associated Press  

— In control of Congress and soon the White House, Republicans are readying plans to roll back the influence of the Endangered Species Act, one of the government’s most powerful conservation tools, after decades of complaints that it hinders drilling, logging and other activities. “The political lineup is as unfavorable to the Endangered Species Act as I can remember.” More …

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