New Regulation Allows Widespread Destruction of Habitat, Increasing Risk to Plants, Animals From Death-by-a-Thousand-Cuts
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–February 5, 2016. A new regulationfinalized today by the Obama administration will put hundreds of endangered plants and animals at greater risk of extinction by dramatically reducing protections for their designated critical habitat. The regulation green-lights development, logging, mining and other destructive activities in critical habitat for endangered species as long as these activities aren’t determined to impact the entirety…
