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The Trump administration on Friday finalized its plan to loosen Obama-era protections on the habitat of the sage grouse across 10 oil-rich Western states.
The plan, which would strip away protections for the bird on nearly nine million acres of land in the West — making it easier for oil and gas companies to drill on that land.
LINK (via: The NY Times)