Yet another attack on the Endangered Species Act—a bit more clever than most . . .
…Every ecosystem has a “keystone” species whose presence or absence affects everything else in the landscape. The legal system works in a similar way.
A series of recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service changes aimed at the Endangered Species Act appear to consider the 1973 law as the keystone to unleashing resource development, according to both federal agency leaders and environmental activists challenging the Trump administration policies in court. In particular, they warn that a rule changing the definition of a single word in the ESA could effectively gut it…