An Orca surfaces near a whale watching boat off of Point Loma in San Diego, California, on Monday January 29, 2024. Denis Poroy/AP/File

The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to roll back Biden-era protections for endangered species and their habitats.

The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service proposed restoring rules from the first Trump administration that stripped safeguards for plants and animals threatened by human development and a warming planet.

Specifically, it lets economic factors be a main point when considering which endangered species merit protection under the longstanding environmental law. The two agencies also proposed to strip the so-called “blanket rule”, which extends endangered-level protections to speci

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