The Trump administration issued a proposed rule that environmental groups allege would end habitat protections for America’s endangered animals.
The proposal from the Department of the Interior and Department of Commerce would rescind the 1973 Endangered Species Act’s definition of “harm,” which means an act that actually kills or injures wildlife. The definition includes significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by “significantly impairing essential behavior patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering."
