Ever since President Nixon signed the bill declaring the Endangered Species Act the law of the land, subsequent presidents (mostly his fellow Republicans) have tried to weaken, undermine or undo it. Not to be outdone, our current president (businessman Donald Trump) has taken a stab at it, or, according to the title of an article cheering his administration on, “revamp” it.

I’m sorry, but, at the risk of sounding distrustful, to me the word “revamp” sounds more like something a bloodsucking Count from Transylvania likes to do when sun goes down, not the kind of behavior you’d expect from an esteemed ruler of the free world.

So what would this planned “revamping” do exactly? What sort of revisions to the Endangered Species Act do the Trumpetts propose?

The Department of the Interior (namely the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. as well as the National Marine Fisheries Service) has introduced new…