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Proposal Weakens Endangered Species Protections From Fracking on Public Lands

2013-08-30 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Center for Biological Diversity: The Obama administration has proposed a new rule that would scale back the requirement that federal agencies fully track the harms inflicted on endangered species when large-scale plans are developed and carried out on federal public lands. As a result, the cumulative impacts on rare species from actions like oil and gas drilling will be discounted in the decision-making process--putting hundreds of plants and animals at greater risk of extinction. The change is being proposed by the U.S. Fish and...

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