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| Dear Friend, |
| The Trump administration recently announced another major attack on the Endangered Species Act, proposing new rules that would limit the law’s effectiveness. |
| The Trump administration’s proposal would: |
- Eliminate the automatic protections that species receive when they are listed as threatened.
- Limit habitat protections to the area where each species lives now, ignoring its historic range.
- Allow agencies to fast-track harmful projects like logging or drilling.
- Prioritize corporate finances over science in decisions about species' survival.
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| With weakened regulations, the Trump administration can allow extractive industries to get rich off projects that harm imperiled species and the places where they live. |
| Earthjustice has fought for decades to protect the Endangered Species Act, including lawsuits against the first Trump administration to stop a similar proposal from going into effect. |
| Read more about threats to the Endangered Species Act and how Earthjustice is fighting back. |
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| In addition to fighting attacks on the law, we are fighting multiple legal battles to save threatened and endangered species. |
| Just this month, we sued the Trump administration to force it to finalize protections for the California spotted owl, as it is legally required to do after a previous Earthjustice win. |
| California spotted owls live only in mature and old-growth forests, where they are threatened by logging and the impacts of climate change, including severe fires, prolonged drought, and higher temperatures. |
| There is an urgent need for the government to implement the protections the previous administration proposed in 2023 after our 2021 settlement. And yet, as is often the case, the Trump administration is refusing to follow the law. |
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| When the Trump administration breaks the law, Earthjustice sues. In every case, we represent our clients free of charge. From now until Giving Tuesday, anything you give to support our lawsuits will be matched $3:$1 to quadruple your impact. |
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Sincerely,
Kristen Boyles
Managing Attorney,
Earthjustice Northwest Regional Office |
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