The Trump administration's overhaul of the Endangered Species Act is bad news for animals and plants, but great news for oil companies and other developers.
The big motivator behind these changes is that the Interior Department can now consider economic factors when making decisions about what kinds of protections a threatened or endangered species might get. Now, when the Interior decides to change a species’ designation, they have to include if there was any economic motivation to do so.
All this really means is that energy companies, home builders, and other businesses are annoyed that they can’t build businesses and erect oil drills wherever they want because the government is protecting land that belongs to certain endangered species and fauna. If the government loosens their ESA restrictions, that opens up the possibility of building on land that was previously protecting endangered plants and animals.
Three months after UN report warned that 1m species face extinction because of human activity, Trump admin finalized rule changes to the Endangered Species Act that make it harder to protect plants and animals whose populations are in serious decline
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