Tuesday Top of the Scroll: Trump weakens Endangered Species Act; California promises to put up a fight
The Trump administration on Monday extended rollbacks of the nation’s environmental laws to the Endangered Species Act, a cardinal conservation program that’s helped keep wolves, whales and condors, among scores of other critters, flourishing across the West.
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