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- Google’s desperate push to keep Chrome.
- A new deregulatory effort to make executives' salaries secret.
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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🦬 Deregulating extinction. Today is your last day to leave a public comment on a new Trump administration proposal redefining the Endangered Species Act, which since 1973 has made it illegal to destroy habitats housing animals identified as at-risk of extinction. Now, Trump officials are seeking to “rescind the regulatory definition” of the word “harm” because its inclusion of wildlife habitat protection “runs contrary to the best meaning of the statutory term ‘take.’” According to environmental advocacy group Earthjustice, this redefinition would “vaporize" protections for habitats, opening up countless previously protected lands to profitization and development.
