Safe Habitats for Rare Bats and Beetles Quietly Stalled by Trump
- Administration withdrew 42 actions on endangered species
- Effort may run afoul of federal law protecting animals, plants
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The Trump administration has quietly withdrawn dozens of pending actions to protect endangered species ranging from the green sea turtle to plants in the Florida Everglades, something conservationists say may violate federal law requiring the government to act.
The pending rules were mostly withdrawn in March and April, but environmental groups and others say they didn’t know about the action because the administration only noted it in passing in a broader posting from the White House on the status of regulations.