# Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species

https://mins.news/en/item/63509

- The Associated Press, 2026-09-18 01:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://bit.ly/4rrhHtO

> Under the Trump administration’s new reading of the Endangered Species Act, logging or dam-building projects could unintentionally kill endangered animals without that result being treated as illegal.

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