The endangered Gray Wolf, being a keystone predator, is an integral component of the ecosystems to which it typically belongs. USFWS Endangered Species A little more than a month after the Trump administration announced a major rollback of the Endangered Species Act , 17 states are suing to stop it. The administration’s changes would remove the blanket rule giving threatened species the same protections as endangered species , allow regulators to calculate the economic cost of protecting any given species and make it harder to protect species from the impacts of the climate crisis . They were announced months after a major UN biodiversity report warned that one million species could go extinct because of human activity. #BREAKING Democratic AGs across the country just took action to save the Endangered Species Act! So far, Dem AGs have taken more than 250 actions to combat the ongoing climate crisis and stop the Trump admin’s dangerous rollbacks in environmental policy! pic.twitter.com/haNg8INfQV — Democratic AGs (@DemocraticAGs) September 25, 2019 "As we face a climate emergency and global extinction crisis threatening more than a million species, the Trump Administration is gutting Endangered Species Act protections to pave the way for oil and gas […]
17 States Sue to Stop Trump Admin Attack on Endangered Species Act
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