Trump administration calls endangered species protections a `regulatory burden`
(WorldNews Environment)

Interior Department deputy secretary David Bernhardt says the way the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is implemented today causes an `unnecessary regulatory burden` on U.S. taxpayers and companies. Bernhardt makes the case for the administration`s recently proposed changes to ESA implementation in a Washington Post op-ed on Friday, arguing that plans to strip `threatened` species of the same protections as listed `endangered` ones would clean up the...