Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining

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Posted on AllSides July 10, 2026

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The Trump administration on Friday moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century.

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