The Endangered Endangered Species Act
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🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Uber's got all sorts of new features that they're adding to the Uber app. |
| 0:04.3 | One of them is to help you find your Uber driver. |
| 0:07.1 | You can choose a color to light up your phone's screen and you just hold it up and it makes |
| 0:12.1 | it easier for your driver to spot you in a crowd or at night. |
| 0:16.3 | Who doesn't like colors? |
| 0:17.3 | That's just one of the many new features in the Uber app. |
| 0:19.8 | You can find out about all of them at uber.com slash moving forward. |
| 0:23.2 | Umarir Fon, you report on the environment and energy here at Vox. |
| 0:35.7 | Word on the street is that the endangered species act has itself become endangered. |
| 0:40.9 | Well certainly parts of it are under threat. |
| 0:45.8 | This week the Trump administration issued a proposal that would change the endangered |
| 0:50.0 | species act in the most extensive way since it was signed in 1973. |
| 0:54.9 | So what exactly is the Trump administration trying to change? |
| 0:58.3 | Well one they want to introduce financial calculations into the endangered species act. |
| 1:02.6 | Basically they want people to weigh the cost of complying with the rules to protect |
| 1:07.5 | these organisms against the benefit of keeping them alive. |
| 1:11.1 | And the concern among environmentalists is that that can be used to prevent an animal |
| 1:15.8 | from going on the endangered species list. |
| 1:18.4 | The other big change that they've proposed is what they do to species that are threatened |
| 1:22.5 | that is one level below endangered. |
| 1:24.7 | So threatened species isn't just like a description. |
| 1:27.8 | It's an actual sort of category here. |
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