Washington, July 24 -- Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick issued the following press release:
Today, Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1 and Mike Quigley (D-IL-5), ), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, introduced the Safeguarding Endangered Species Act, bipartisan legislation to nullify the Administration's recently finalized rule weakening the Endangered Species Act's protections against destructive habitat loss.
For more than five decades, the Endangered Species Act has prohibited the unlawful "take" of threatened and endangered wildlife. Since 1975, federal regulations have recognized that "harm" can include significant habitat destruction or degradation that actually kills or injures wildlife by disrupting essential...