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Latest top headlines • 24 July 2026
For the second time, a Trump-appointed judge has at least temporarily stripped ESA protections from a species listed under Biden. https://buff.ly/SGYpN4X
USNPS has decided not to kill a grizzly bear that killed a hiker in Glacier NP in May, saying that the animal was surprised and had no record of previous human encounters, among other mitigating factors. https://buff.ly/tXr9ZZd
Trump has removed a sign with 5 Tribal Nation seals from the entrance to Bears Ears NMon. As part of his order last week cutting the NMon by over 90%, he dissolved the co-management agreement as well. https://buff.ly/HfR7nd7
Trump's proposal to weaken Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act is drawing fire from preservationists. https://buff.ly/IeFXiRo
People gathered around the state of Utah to protest Trump's latest NMon cuts. https://buff.ly/Jnr2fVt
Trump is threatening to "debar" the National Academies of Science from getting any federal money for up to 3 years because of its latest publication on climate change. https://buff.ly/bZtnnk9
Trump is attempting to weaken Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act — the part of the law that requires federal authorities to reckon with the impacts their projects may have on cultural resources. https://buff.ly/xwdmr6R
Deforestation in Brazil's portion of the Amazon is the lowest it's been in 10 years, new figures say. https://buff.ly/gWVgla4
Working at night to avoid scrutiny, USNPS installed new Trump-approved panels at the President's House in Independence NHP. The panels soften Washington's role as a slave owner and replaced a panel titled "The Dirty Business of Slavery" with one celebrating the US. https://buff.ly/U0SGKCp
Burgum announced a new rule that would let three states manage grizzly bears without delisting them from ESA. It got mixed reviews. https://buff.ly/eusTwyC
In a Time magazine explainer on the Antiquities Act, a legal expert on the act says he thinks courts will overturn Trump's latest attempt to cut the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante NMons. https://buff.ly/M7337pK
Environmental groups are suing Trump over his decision last week to redefine the meaning of "harm" in the ESA so that protections would be greatly weakened. https://buff.ly/F7TXRsp
As he did in 2017, Trump again issued an order to slash the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante NMs — this time by some 90%, however. Tribes and conservationists will restart a pending lawsuit left over from the first time around, and a tangle of other suits are expected. https://buff.ly/5Ax5HcV
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