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道格·伯戈姆与霍华德·卢特尼克援引洛珀·布莱特诉雷蒙多案 推翻基于栖息地的限制措施
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内政部长道格·伯戈姆感谢特朗普总统在放松对渔业行业产生“扼杀就业、破坏社区”影响的监管方面发挥的领导作用。他强调，特朗普的行动支持了从太平洋到其他地区领海内的美国公民和企业，为国家保障了健康食品，并培育了五代传承的家族企业。
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独家报道： 内政部与商务部正在废除一项范围广泛的《濒危物种法》（ESA）规则，官员们称往届政府曾“武器化”该规则，以阻挠能源生产、伐木、基础设施项目以及私人公民的土地使用。
官员们指出，有多项列入《濒危物种法》保护的物种，相关部门将栖息地改造视为对受保护物种的潜在“伤害”，由此施加了过度或繁重的限制，据称这扩大了《濒危物种法》中“伤害”条款的适用范围。
“多年来，联邦机构滥用《濒危物种法》阻挠合法土地使用，给美国家庭和企业增添负担，”内政部长道格·伯戈姆在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
“这种做法将日常活动变成了监管陷阱，推高了影响民众生活的成本，还将联邦权力扩张到了国会原本未授权的范围之外。”
拜登时代的环保规则被指扼杀卡车司机生计、挤压美国民众 如今登上特朗普政府的砍削清单
2014年4月18日，堪萨斯州爱德华兹县的求偶场中，一只雄草原榛鸡正在展示自己。数百年来，它们每天都会聚集在同一地点长达三个月，以吸引雌性。联邦政府将草原榛鸡列为受威胁物种，这一举措得到了环保人士的赞扬，却也引发了该鸟类栖息地覆盖的五个州的议员、土地所有者和企业的抵制。（迈克尔·皮尔斯/威奇托鹰报/麦克奇新闻集团通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
上周五，内政部与商务部宣布废除“过时”的“伤害”监管定义，将《濒危物种法》的解释恢复至最初意图，以结束多年来的联邦权力过度扩张。
本届政府部分援引了最高法院2024年在洛珀·布莱特诉雷蒙多案中的裁决，该裁决推翻了“谢夫隆遵从原则”，规定法院在解释联邦法律时必须行使独立判断权，而非遵从机构对模糊法律的偏好解读。
官员们表示，此次规则调整旨在让监管规定与法律的“唯一最佳”含义保持一致，而非任由法律“被扭曲以迎合政治议程”。
对特朗普议程的法律战火力增强 联邦律师倒向民主党阵营
加利福尼亚州麦基特里克附近的一处油田。（马里奥·塔马/盖蒂图片社）
官员们以沙丘榛舌蜥为例，拜登政府曾在2024年将该物种列为濒危物种，他们认为这一做法体现了投机性的基于栖息地的限制措施。
官员们指出，这一物种的列名导致了得克萨斯州利润丰厚的二叠纪盆地的能源项目受到不必要的限制，这一情况近期在比利·鲍勃·桑顿主演的热门剧集《土地人》中有所展现。
根据《濒危物种法》第9条，“捕获”濒危野生动物属于违法行为，国会将该术语定义为包括伤害、骚扰、致伤或杀害受保护物种等行为。
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联邦相关文件将物种数量下降与地表扰动活动挂钩，包括能源开发和采砂作业。官员和行业代表称，这些活动可能触发代价高昂的许可和合规负担。
官员们还援引了草原榛鸡的案例，这种草原鸟类的联邦保护措施遭到了新墨西哥州、得克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州、堪萨斯州和科罗拉多州的农民、牧场主和能源开发商的反对。
围绕基于栖息地的“伤害”定义之争已持续数十年，其中包括北方斑点鸮的案例。1990年将其列入《濒危物种法》引发了太平洋西北地区长达多年的伐木采伐之争，并被归咎于就业岗位流失。
《环境经济与管理杂志》2021年的一项研究估计，北方斑点鸮被列入《濒危物种法》导致太平洋西北地区和北加州的木材行业就业岗位减少约1.6万至3.2万个。
木材行业利益相关方和土地所有者对联邦的定义提出了质疑，认为“伤害”应仅涵盖对野生动物的直接伤害，而非间接影响物种的栖息地改造。
1995年，最高法院做出有利于克林顿政府内政部长布鲁斯·巴比特的裁决，维持了“伤害”的定义，即当栖息地改造实际上导致受保护野生动物死亡或受伤时，重大的栖息地改造也应被纳入“伤害”范畴。
官员们表示，此次调整旨在在洛珀·布莱特案裁决后缩小监管范围，防止机构利用基于栖息地的理论阻挠国会授权范围之外的合法活动。
两部门认为，此前被扩大解释的“伤害”定义构成了对私有财产权的非法侵犯。
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商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克补充说，尤其是渔民们长期以来一直受该法规的拖累。
将《濒危物种法》恢复至最初目的既能保护环境，也能促进经济发展，卢特尼克表示。
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一名伐木工人在美国的采伐作业中搬运硬木。（罗伯特·尼克尔斯伯格/盖蒂图片社）
“本届政府致力于以黄金标准科学、法律和国会实际赋予我们的工具来保护野生动物，”美国鱼类和野生动物管理局局长布莱恩·内斯维克补充道。“我们可以在保护物种的同时尊重社区利益。”
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内政部长道格·伯戈姆（左）；美国木材采伐场景（右）。（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社；罗伯特·尼克尔斯伯格/盖蒂图片社）
政府官员强调，《濒危物种法》的核心保护措施仍然有效，包括禁止直接伤害或杀害受保护野生动物。
政府表示，此次调整旨在减少许可和合规成本，同时为土地所有者、能源生产商和开发商提供更清晰的法律依据，推进唐纳德·特朗普总统的国内能源主导愿景，打造一个为普通美国人服务而非与之为敌的监管体系。
作者在宾夕法尼亚州艾伦镇出生长大，2013年起任职于福克斯新闻纽约和华盛顿分社。
Trump admin scraps ‘weaponized’ wildlife rule that became ‘burden’ on American families and businesses: Burgum
July 10, 2026 1:12pm EDT / Fox News
Doug Burgum and Howard Lutnick cite Loper Bright v. Raimondo to roll back habitat-based restrictions
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Doug Burgum praises Trump’s leadership on rolling back regulations
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum thanks President Trump for his leadership in rolling back ‘job-killing, community-killing’ regulations impacting the fishing industry. He emphasizes that Trump’s actions have supported American citizens and businesses in territorial waters, from the Pacific to other regions, ensuring healthy food for the nation and creating fifth-generation family businesses.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Interior and Commerce Departments are scrapping a sweeping Endangered Species Act (ESA) rule that officials say past administrations “weaponized” to block energy production, logging, infrastructure projects and private citizens’ land use.
Officials pointed to several ESA-listed species they say triggered undue or burdensome restrictions by treating habitat modification as potential “harm” to protected species, purportedly expanding the ESA’s “harm” provision.
“For years, federal agencies abused the ESA to obstruct lawful land use and burden American families and businesses,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Fox News Digital.
“That approach turned routine activity into a regulatory trap, drove up costs that impacted people’s lives, and expanded federal authority beyond what Congress intended.”
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A male lesser prairie chicken displays on an Edwards County, Kansas lek on April 18, 2014. For centuries, they’ve gathered daily in the same places for up to three months hoping to impress a female. The federal government designates the lesser prairie chicken as threatened, prompting praise from environmentalists and threats of defiance from lawmakers, landowners and businesses in the bird’s five-state habitat.(Michael Pearce/Wichita Eagle/MCT via Getty Images)
On Friday, the Interior and Commerce Departments announced they are rescinding the ‘outdated’ regulatory definition of ‘harm’ and returning the Endangered Species Act’s interpretation to its original intent to end years of federal overreach.
The administration is relying in part on the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, which overturned “Chevron deference” and held that courts must use independent judgment when interpreting federal statutes rather than deferring to an agency’s preferred reading of ambiguous law.
The rule change therefore aims to align regulations with the “single best” meaning of a statute rather than letting it be “contort[ed] to fit a political agenda,” officials said.
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An oil field near McKittrick, California is seen.(Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Officials pointed to the dunes sagebrush lizard, which the Biden administration listed as endangered in 2024, as an example of what they view as speculative habitat-based restrictions.
Officials argued the change led to unnecessary restrictions on energy projects in Texas’ lucrative Permian Basin, most recently depicted in the acclaimed Billy Bob Thornton series “Landman.”
Under Section 9 of the ESA, it is unlawful to “take” endangered wildlife, a term Congress defined to include actions such as harming, harassing, wounding or killing protected species.
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Federal materials tied the species’ decline to surface-disturbing activities, including energy development and sand mining, which officials and industry representatives say can trigger costly permitting and compliance burdens.
Officials also cited the lesser prairie-chicken, a grassland bird whose federal protections have drawn opposition from farmers, ranchers and energy developers across New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado.
The fight over habitat-based “harm” dates back decades, including the northern spotted owl, whose 1990 ESA listing fueled a long-running battle over timber harvesting in the Pacific Northwest and was blamed for job losses.
A 2021 study in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management estimated the owl’s ESA listing reduced timber employment by roughly 16,000 to 32,000 jobs in the Pacific Northwest and northern California.
Timber interests and landowners challenged the federal definition, arguing that “harm” should cover direct injury to wildlife, not habitat modification that indirectly affects a species.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Clinton Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in 1995, upholding a definition of “harm” that included significant habitat modification when it actually kills or injures protected wildlife.
Officials say the change is designed to narrow the regulation after Loper Bright and prevent agencies from using habitat-based theories to block lawful activity far beyond what Congress authorized.
The agencies argued the previously broadened definition of “harm” became an unlawful intrusion on private property rights.
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick added that fishermen in particular have been burdened by the regulation for “too long.”
Returning the ESA to its original purpose protects both the environment and economic development, Lutnick said.
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A logger lifts hardwood during a harvesting operation in the U.S.(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
“This administration is committed to protecting wildlife using Gold Standard Science, the law and the tools Congress actually gave us,” added U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik. “We can protect species and respect communities at the same time.”
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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, left; Timber logging in the U.S., right.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
Administration officials stressed that core ESA protections remain in place, including prohibitions on directly injuring or killing protected wildlife.
The administration said the change is intended to reduce permitting and compliance costs while providing greater legal clarity for landowners, energy producers and developers, advancing President Donald Trump’s vision of domestic energy dominance and a regulatory state that works for, not against, the average American.
Born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, worked in both the New York and Washington bureaus for Fox News since 2013.
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