Trump Administration Proposes Revamping the Endangered Species Act
- Review of decades-old law that’s disliked by miners, loggers
- Proposal would make it easier to delist species as endangered
A bald eagle flies over Lake Sammamish in Seattle.
Photographer: Kevin P. Casey/Bloomberg
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A decades-old law credited with saving from extinction the American bald eagle, the iconic bird of prey whose image graces the presidential seal, would be reworked under a proposal the Trump administration announced Thursday.
Enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, which seeks to prevent plants and animals from becoming extinct, would be changed to make it is easier to remove species from the list of protected ones. The proposal also makes changes that speed the approval process that federal agencies are required to complete before making changes that could harm endangered species, and would weaken protections for critical habitat.