The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled backback under former President Donald Trump.
Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened. That means officials won’t have to craft time-intensive plans to shield each individual species while protections are pending, as has been done recently with North American wolverines and alligator snapping turtles in the southeastern U.S. and spotted owls in California.
The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species lawunder Trump that were encouraged by industry. Those changes came as extinctions accelerate globally due to habitat loss and other pressures.
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Spot on. Putin’s Sock Puppet should go hunting with Vlad in fucking Siberia without a map, GPS, compass and one bullet each.
I would say no bullets, but the polar bears don’t need coronary diseases
Took them long enough.
Next they’ll repeal the Trump era tax raises on the lower classes!
Right?
That expires next year
Fuzzy huggable murder puppy
