The Trump administration this week moved to weaken the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, two bedrock laws, among other deregulatory moves.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    The endangered species act actually needs some updates. As it stands, it incentivizes people who discover an endangered species on their land to shovel and shut up rather than conservation.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      Sure, but the choice in recent decades has been to leave it as is, or to completely gut it.