Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (the “Services”) issued a proposed rule that would undermine protections for habitat that threatened and endangered species need to survive by rescinding the agency’s decades-old definition of “harm.

A proposed rule would narrow the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act and could open the door to more mining, construction and other activities.

Wednesday on the RCP Podcast, Tom Bevan spoke with RCP White House reporter Phil Wegmann about his new scoop revealing President Trump's plan to alter the interpretation of how the Endangered Species Act defines "harm" to animals.