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Environmentalist and conservationist organizations are lambasting the Trump administration for considering circumventing the Endangered Species Act to clear a pathway for increased offshore oil and ...

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Olympic marmots are found only in the Olympic Mountains of Washington state. The species has been petitioned for protections under the Endangered Species Act (John Gussman) (CN) — The U.S. Fish and ...

President Trump's administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the ...

The Endangered Species Committee has voted to lift protections for endangered species in the Gulf of America in a bid to ...

A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop Trump’s Extinction Plan.” The sign-carrying Arctic creature—actually an ...

“The proposed changes, coupled with the mass firing of dedicated staff at US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service, put the fate of species like Pacific salmon, the ghost orchid, and the red ...

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