ASSOCIATED PRESS • March 24, 2020
The Trump administration is steadily pushing major public health and environmental rollbacks toward enactment, rejecting appeals that it slow its deregulatory drive while Americans grapple with the pandemic. The Interior Department, for example, is moving ahead with a measure that would greatly ease protections under the more than century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Critics say the changes could devastate threatened and endangered species and speed an already documented decline in U.S. bird populations overall.