{"id":101,"date":"2026-04-24T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/trump-administration-attempt-to-gut-endangered-species-act-hits-roadblock\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:17:00","slug":"trump-administration-attempt-to-gut-endangered-species-act-hits-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/trump-administration-attempt-to-gut-endangered-species-act-hits-roadblock\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/03\/trump-convenes-god-squad-to-override-endangered-species-act-up-oil-production\/\">trying to defang the Endangered Species Act<\/a>, the country\u2019s bedrock conservation law. But one of the most aggressive and far-reaching attempts just faced a major setback\u2014and concerns from within the party were at least part of the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the US House of Representatives abruptly canceled a vote that had been scheduled for Wednesday\u2014Earth Day\u2014on legislation that aims to codify into law many of President Donald Trump\u2019s moves to weaken endangered species protections. Some lawmakers, mostly in tourism-dependent areas along the Gulf of Mexico, expressed concerns about the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t tread on my turtles. Protected means protected,\u201d US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/repluna\/status\/2046350116026470439?s=46\">a social media post on Monday<\/a> ahead of the then-pending vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/04\/trump-administration-attempt-to-gut-endangered-species-act-hits-roadblock\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/04\/trump-administration-attempt-to-gut-endangered-species-act-hits-roadblock\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>House vote to defang the Endangered Species Act was unexpectedly cancelled<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-consumer-tech","tag-culture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}