Environment · category
Wildlife
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The trending post highlights what is described as the largest wildlife overpass in North America, a vegetated bridge that lets animals cross a highway safely. The post cites a 91% reduction in wildlife-vehicle collisions where it was built. Commenters and readers are sharing the figure as striking evidence that such infrastructure works, praising it as an effective, feel-good example of conservation engineering, though the snippet does not specify the overpass's exact location or the monitoring period.
- 2Trump plan to weaken Endangered Species Act cites 1995 Scalia dissent●Trump's sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent
The Trump administration is pursuing changes that would significantly weaken the Endangered Species Act, and the legal reasoning behind the effort draws heavily on a 1995 dissent written by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Critics describe the approach as a backdoor attempt to hollow out protections for threatened wildlife without going through Congress, reviving a decades-old argument that Scalia first laid out on the Supreme Court.