Trump Administration Legalizes Extinction of the Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Trump administration legalizes extinction of the Gunnison sage-grouse

Had Donald Trump been president in 1973, when Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into federal law, the Gunnison sage-grouse would be extinct. Close to 90 percent of all Gunnison sage-grouse remaining on the planet are in the Gunnison…

Green Movement's Selective Outrage Over ESA Reforms

By Vijay Jayaraj President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration had returned the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “to how it was intended to be,” invoking the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s reading of the statute and initiating the crocodile tears of anti-development activists. The administration’s view is that regulators committed to regulatory expansion had turned the …

Trump administration’s gutting of Endangered Species Act could legalize extinction

Rescinding the regulatory definition of ‘harm’ opens the door to degradation of habitat species need to survive, writes Ted Williams. The post Trump administration’s gutting of Endangered Species Act could legalize extinction appeared first on WyoFile .

Extinction of the Gunnison Sage-Grouse Legalized

Had Donald Trump been president in 1973, when Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into federal law, the Gunnison sage-grouse would be extinct. Close to 90 percent of all Gunnison sage-grouse remaining on the planet are in the Gunnison River Basin of west-central Colorado. The rest are in Utah. They've been extirpated from Arizona and New Mexico. The species is critically...