Biden to roll back 2 Trump ESA rollbacks

The Biden administration will move to rescind two Trump-era rollbacks of protections for endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced Tuesday.

The first of the two rules, announced in December , would have curtailed the definition of “habitat” to pertain to areas that can currently support a species. Environmentalists pushed back on the move at the time, noting that it would exclude areas that could potentially support species in the future.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/578464-biden-administration-moves-to-undo-two-trump-era-endangered-species

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