Trump Interior Department Rescinds Automatic ESA Protections for Threatened Species; Environmental Groups Pledge Legal Challenge
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The reversal removes a safeguard that automatically extended endangered-species protections to newly listed threatened animals, shifting burden of proof and potentially accelerating development in habitats for vulnerable wildlife.
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