trump weakens endangered species protections

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Connelly: Trump to Earth's wild creatures — Go extinct
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Connelly: Trump to Earth's wild creatures — Go extinct

The Trump Administration is hell-bent on taking habitat away from threatened and endangered species: It is green lighting giant mines, opening public lands to oil drilling, and gutting the federal law that offered protection.
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Trump’s evisceration of Endangered Species Act is deadly for Florida’s wildlife
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Trump’s evisceration of Endangered Species Act is deadly for Florida’s wildlife

Don’t put a price on the heads of Florida’s endangered panthers and threatened manatees.
Trump weakens endangered species protections, making it harder to consider effects of climate change
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Trump weakens endangered species protections, making it harder to consider effects of climate change

The changes also let the government consider economic interests and could open doors to oil and gas drilling and mining in sensitive areas, including the Arctic.
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