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House Interior Appropriations Bill Contains Devastating Attacks on Wildlife [1]
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Date: 2025-07
Defenders of Wildlife strongly condemns the House Appropriations Committee’s proposed Interior and Environment spending bill for Fiscal Year 2026 which includes numerous poison pill policy riders that undermine the Endangered Species Act and protections for individual species. The bill also includes additional riders that diminish protections for America’s wildlife, public lands and waters.
“This budget proposal shows yet again the extremes to which anti-wildlife members of Congress will go to sacrifice endangered species,” said Robert Dewey, vice president of government relations at Defenders of Wildlife. “The bill is loaded with riders that attack the Endangered Species Act and would put some of America’s most iconic species, including the grizzly bear and wolverine, at serious risk of extinction. By blocking protections for public lands while also providing short-sighted lease sales for the benefit of oil and gas corporations, the bill and all who support it are compromising the crucial habitats, outdoor recreation areas and natural resources that Americans and wildlife rely on.”
Of its most egregious provisions, the bill slashes funding for listing threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act by two-thirds and includes poison-pill riders that would:
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