The Trump administration is rescinding a decades-old Endangered Species Act rule it says expanded federal authority to restrict energy production, infrastructure projects and private land use.

The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries have changed what it means to “harm” threatened or endangered wildlife. The Trump administration redefined how the federal government will interpret a key word in the Endangered Species Act on Friday ...

Since 2008, rules requiring ships to slow down to avoid collisions with North Atlantic right whales have reduced fatalities of the critically endangered animals. Now, NOAA is calling the regulations into question,

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.