{"id":43973,"date":"2026-01-16T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/?p=43973"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:19:07","slug":"congress-urges-trump-administration-to-abandon-effort-to-gut-endangered-species-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/2026\/01\/congress-urges-trump-administration-to-abandon-effort-to-gut-endangered-species-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Urges Trump Administration to Abandon Effort to Gut Endangered Species Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, prominent Congressional Democrats led members of their party in <a href=\"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esa_regulations_rollback_letter_2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">demanding<\/a> the Trump administration withdraw their proposed rules that would effectively dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;These sweeping changes would fundamentally weaken our nation&#8217;s most important wildlife conservation law at a time when one million species face extinction globally,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0wrote the lawmakers.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;We urge the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service to withdraw these proposed rulemakings and instead work to implement the ESA as Congress intended: any regulatory changes should further the objectives of the ESA to conserve species and prevent extinction.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s proposed rules would end blanket protections for threatened species, limit the interagency consultation process, allow economic considerations to factor into listing decisions, and make it more challenging to list a species as endangered or threatened. Over one million comments were submitted before the close of the public comment period on December 22, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawmakers rightly recognize the popularity and effectiveness of the ESA; it has saved more than 99% of listed species from extinction since its inception in 1973. Recent polling suggests that a majority of Americans support the ESA and understand the need to protect the diverse wildlife that reside across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esa_regulations_rollback_letter_2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Read the full letter here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, prominent Congressional Democrats led members of their party in demanding the Trump administration withdraw their proposed rules that would effectively dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA). &#8220;These sweeping changes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":24646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-threats"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43975,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973\/revisions\/43975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}