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By JULIET EILPERIN, LISA REIN, DARRYL FEARS | The Washington Post | Published: December 18, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WASHINGTON — Officials have taken the extraordinary step of closing the Washington Monument starting Friday as a precaution after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt — who gave a private, nighttime tour to associates this week — tested positive for the coronavirus. Interi...

Washington Monument shuttered after interior secretary tests positive for the coronavirus Juliet Eilperin, Lisa Rein and Darryl Fears, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail The COVID Memorial Project placed 20,000 American flags near the Washington Monument to memorialize the 200,000+ coronavirus deaths in the United States since the pandemic began. An interfaith memorial service was held Sept. 22 in Washington.Photo for The Washington Post by Amanda Voisard WASHINGTON - Officials have taken the extraordinary step of closing the Washington Monument starting Friday as a preca...

December 15, 2020 Brian Hires, 703-358-2191, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service have finalized a regulatory definition of the term “habitat” that will be used for designating critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The definition is part of the efforts of the Trump Administration to balance effective, science-based conservation with common-sense policy designed to bring the ESA into the 21st century. “This action will bring greater clarity and consistency to how the Service designates critical habitat,” sa...

Trump admin shrinks habitat protections of endangered species By (0) Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Trump administration adopted a new rule Tuesday that narrows the definition of what constitutes a habitat under the Endangered Species Act that environmentalists say will threaten the conservation of animals. Under the new regulation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior shrank the definition of "critical habitat" to areas "currently or periodically" required for a listed endangered species to live. Advertisement The old definition provided protections for habitats anima...

A new Trump rule could shrink protected habitat for endangered wildlife Darryl Fears © Gerald Herbert/AP A gopher frog at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. A proposal to change implementation of the Endangered Species Act follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on habitat for the frog. (Gerald Herbert/AP) The Trump administration adopted a rule Tuesday that could shrink the historic habitats of plants and animals threatened with extinction, an action that opponents say will make it more difficult for them to recover. On their way out of office, the directors of the U.S. Fish...