The Trump Administration proposed three regulations that would essentially gut major provisions of the administrative rules implementing the ESA, including stripping protections from “threatened” species and creating significant impediments to listing of species and critical habitat designation. Sierra Club and our ESA partners mounted a campaign to push back on these proposed rule changes.
Over 75,000 people like you took action against this attempt to gut the Endangered Species act, and in total, the ESA coalition generated over 800,000 comments.
Today, against a backdrop of recent reports of global mass extinction, the Trump administration released final regulations weakening the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s most effective tool in saving wildlife from extinction.
The Trump Extinction Plan would do major damage to our struggling wildlife. It would gut critical endangered species protections by making it much more difficult to extend protections to threatened species. It would delaying lifesaving action until a species' population is potentially impossible to save. It will make it more difficult to protect polar bears, coral reefs, and other species that are impacted by the effects of climate change. It will even allow economic factors to be analyzed when deciding if a species should be saved, making it easier for companies to build roads, pipelines, mines, and other industrial projects in critical habitat areas that are essential to imperiled species' survival.
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Text of Petition:
I am deeply disappointed and saddened by your agencies’ decision to dramatically weaken the protections of the Endangered Species Act.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most effective environmental policies in American history. Endangered Species Act protection has saved iconic wildlife like the bald eagle, Florida manatee, American gray wolf, California condor and humpback whale. In fact 99% of species protected under this landmark bi-partisan bill have avoided extinction.
Last year, 30 Tribal Nations,34 US senators and over 800,000 activists took action to defend the Endangered Species Act, rejecting any rollback of critical wildlife protections. Unfortunately, this administration has chosen to plow forward with plans to gut this effective, essential wildlife legislation.
It is the responsibility of your agency to protect wildlife, and uphold legislation that protects America’s most precious wildlife -- not poke holes in it to allow for developers, dirty fuels and other destructive forces to damage, destroy and steal land from our vulnerable wildlife.
Please call on your leadership to reverse this shortsighted, greedy decision and allow for the healthy, future survival of wildlife and human life alike.
Originally appeared in SierraClub
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