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Trump administration's endangered-species policy is nothing but animal cruelty

The long Republican war on the Endangered Species Act heated up last week when the Trump administration announced it was changing the rules about how far the government should go to save America's imperiled wildlife.

Having failed to persuade Congress to shred the landmark conservation law -- signed by a Republican president, Richard Nixon, in 1973 -- lobbyists for the oil, mining and logging interests were elated by the breadth and boldness of Trump's shortcut.

The new rules would make

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