The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction. But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, ...

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back protections for at-risk animal and plant species under the Endangered Species Act. Under prior regulations, species that were considered “threatened” — ...

Four major updates could alter the way the act is administered—and how animals are protected. The bald eagle became one of the first species protected by the Endangered Species Act when the ...

The U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration recently finalized a rule that narrows what qualifies as “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. Under the new definition of harm, only actions that ...

That word is "harm." For more than 50 years, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service defined harm to refer to anything that injures or kills a protected organism, including "significant habitat modification ...

(CN) — No harm, no foul? Environmentalists say that adage doesn’t apply here. A group of environmental organizations sued the Trump administration in Seattle federal court Tuesday after the U.S. Fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Northern Spotted Owl sits on a tree stump on August 4, 2009. - Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images/File The Trump administration ...

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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PHOENIX — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act and eliminates a key protection for imperiled wildlife against logging, oil ...

The Interior Department and the Commerce Department announced the administration’s reinterpretation of what defines “harm” in the landmark 1973 legislation Anna Moneymaker/Getty The Trump ...

The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening up sensitive habitats of those protected species to drilling, mining, ...