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Interview with Delcianna Winders, director of the Animal Law and Policy Institute at Vermont Law and Graduate School, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. 

Since it became law in 1973, the Endangered Species Act has used a broad definition of “harm” to animals by including any significant “modification or degradation” of habitat that kills or injures animals by impairing their ability to eat, shelter or breed. But on July 10, the Trump administration’s Interior Department and Commerce Department announced a final rule that rescinded this longstanding interpretation. Here Delcianna Winders talks about the devastating impact of the new rule on endangered and threatened species.