Earlier this week, my colleagues Adam Kahn and Kevin Chen posted about the proposed rule issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service that would rescind the ...
The ESA Harm Rule narrowed federal habitat enforcement in July 2026, shifting disputes toward intent, direct injury and court ...
One-quarter of freshwater animals are now threatened with extinction, and population declines in fresh waters outpace those in marine and terrestrial systems. Reports of salmonid fish decline are ...
The fight turns on one word: harm. At stake is whether destroying the place an endangered animal needs to feed, breed or shelter counts as taking a protected species. Endangered species, habitat and ...
ESA Harm Rule took effect Sept. 14, narrowing take enforcement while leaving Section 7 habitat duties and legal questions in ...
The ESA prohibits the "take" of endangered species without a permit, 2 and the U.S. Congress explicitly defined the term "take" in the statute to mean "to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Trump administration has removed habitat destruction from the regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. The change ...
It wouldn't make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...
It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...
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