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    Trump team weakens endangered species protections for California salmon and delta smelt

    by Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Oct 22, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - In a move that would boost water deliveries to San Joaquin Valley agriculture and Southern California cities, federal fishery agencies are weakening decade-old endangered species protections for some of the state's most imperiled native fish populations.

    The rollback - coming a year after President Donald Trump targeted the regulations in a memo - rewards Central Valley agribusiness interests that are some of the president's strongest California supporters. To critics, it highlights the extent to which the Trump administration has injected politics into federal oversight of the nation's leading environmental laws.

    The actions also put Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leader of the Trump resistance on many environmental

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