The Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition ...

The proposal would for the first time define “habitat” for purposes of enforcing the Endangered Species Act. Land owners sought it; others warned it would seriously hobble restoration efforts.

The Interior Department is moving to formally define "habitat" in the Endangered Species Act, part of an anticipated second wave of changes to the bedrock conservation law under the Trump ...

The new definition would at least clarify that critical habitat should be habitable, avoiding future conflicts like the one that played out with the Poitevents.

The Trump administration’s definition was at odds with the conservation purposes of the Endangered Species Act, wildlife officials said.

The Trump administration on Tuesday narrowed habitat protections for endangered species, finalizing its second major rollback to the Endangered Species Act.The latest rule narrows the definition of… ...

The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals — potentially excluding areas that species could use in the ...

Legal observers said the two-sentence definition, as well as an alternative definition that officials invited comment on, would limit what areas the government can designate as critical to a ...

— The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals — potentially excluding areas that species could use in ...