In trying to gut the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration puts profits ahead of people | By Michael Brune for CNNOpinion
Michael Brune is executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's oldest and largest environmental organizations. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
The greater good. It's a concept that runs throughout recent reports from the world's scientists on the urgent need for climate action, the need to expand the role of lands in climate solutions, the need to slow the accelerating loss of protected wild places and to save wildlife. Yet, as the gutting of the Endangered Species Act this week demonstrates, it's also a foreign concept to a Trump administration focused on putting profits ahead of people.
Michael BruneThe new Endangered Species Act regulations issued this week sweep aside important protections for threatened and endangered species to benefit exploitative industries. Political motives -- cynically justified in the name of economics and efficiency -- are overruling science, with wildlife experts excluded from the decision-making process.
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