How Trump Is Making the Endangered Species Act Great
Heritage Explains
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🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Trump Administration has recently come under intense scrutiny from the left for making revisions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Liberals says these changes will likely lead to more species becoming extinct. But others say the ESA has actually failed in it's well-intentioned goal to preserve endangered species. This week, we push back against the left's narrative, and examine how the Trump Administration's changes could actually make the Endangered Species Act better.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. as Heritage explains. |
| 0:38.3 | That's the sound of sea otters playing in Elkhorn slew in California. If you're in San Francisco and you get a chance, I highly recommend taking the two-hour drive south on the Pacific Coast Highway, |
| 0:46.3 | renting a kayak, and hanging out with them for the morning or the afternoon. |
| 0:52.3 | They are remarkable creatures. |
| 1:00.4 | Did you know that sea otters were almost extinct? |
| 1:03.9 | But because of efforts to preserve the population, |
| 1:06.6 | they're slowly but surely growing. |
| 1:14.0 | They're able to do this because they were given protected status under the federal government in the early 70s. |
| 1:17.0 | Who wouldn't want to protect these awesome creatures? |
| 1:30.3 | Well, it should come as no surprise to learn that when the Trump administration announced it was going to make revisions to the Endangered Species Act, the left would do what they always do. |
| 1:37.4 | Grizzly bears, humpback whales, the bald eagle, all species that might not be here today without the Endangered Species Act, |
| 1:40.6 | which was signed into law by President Nixon in 1973. |
| 1:53.3 | Today, environmental organizations decried the Trump administration for moving to weaken those protections in their view by changing how agencies decide whether animals or habitats deserve to be covered under the Endangered Species Act. |
| 1:55.2 | Hold on. It gets worse. |
| 2:03.0 | The people that will be impacted the most will be our children with the loss and with the emasculation of this incredibly important endeavor of the Endangered Species Act. And I can tell you from |
| 2:09.0 | my heart that there has never been a presidential administration more willfully, more |
| 2:14.7 | purposefully negligent when it comes to the stewardship of our natural resources |
| 2:20.3 | than the Trump administration. |
| 2:23.3 | Or how about comedian Greg Gott? |
| 2:25.3 | Those voices are talking about new changes to the Endangered Species Act, which will shrink |
| 2:30.3 | protections for endangered species, while making it easier for companies to drill and mine in protected areas. |
| 2:36.5 | It makes sense. If you're going to drain the swamp, you might as well check for some oil underneath it. |
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