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Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump's Move to Gut Endangered Species Act

2026-07-16 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, dramatically weakening its power to protect natural habitats and opening vulnerable lands to real estate development, oil drilling and other extractive industries. A coalition of conservation groups is suing the Trump administration over the rule change. They are represented by the environmental law group Earthjustice and senior attorney Ben Levitan, who calls this latest Trump administration attack on the environment "a total repudiation of the premise that endangered species need places to have shelter, to have food, to raise their young." Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@RealLifeRealStruggles-c9h 2026-07-17

Live and let others live …

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@dennismiller5725 2026-07-16

Yellowstone and the elimination of wolves was a disaster and bringing wolves back repaired the park!

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@nigelcarren 2026-07-18

Mother nature will come for them! 🇬🇧

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@Phaedra1980 2026-07-16

Don’t LET THEM DESTROY our forests!!!!!

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@lynnhamamoto199 2026-07-16

Reckless disregard

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@ericcarabetta1161 2026-07-16

These capitalist leeches are relentless, they won’t be satisfied until they’ve sucked the planet dry and left everyone else with the destruction.

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@IavilineMORANIAINA 2026-07-17

Not me searching for Vera Hart’s archetype quiz after seeing it mentioned three times today. I don’t even normally do these quizzes. The curiosity got me.

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@skstrang1 2026-07-18

Thank you Amy! And NPR! The craziness never stops! This administration lives in a gilded cage fantasy land. No accountability, doesn’t care about the earth, animals or its citizens !!❤

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@kimmihelitch9849 2026-07-17

😡 these destroyers need to be stopped asap!!!

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@DemocracyofLight 2026-07-18

Read the ACT for yourself. These sagging gloom and doom loops are feeding you emotions

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