Trump team narrows definition of "harm" for endangered species
Leave it to bureaucracy to fix environmental problems by simply changing what words mean.
The Trump administration finalized a quiet rule change for the Endangered Species Act. Instead of adding actual protections for threatened wildlife, officials decided to narrow the legal definition of "harm" under the landmark law.
If wrecking a rare creature's natural habitat gets significantly harder to classify as legal damage, major industrial projects suddenly have a much clearer path forward.
Saving endangered wildlife turns out to be remarkably simple when inconvenient legal words can just be redefined out of existence.
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