Environmentalists warn of bumblebee's extinction after Trump halts regulations
by Oliver Milman from Environment | The Guardian on (#2C7HS)
Order for 60-day pause on regulations not yet implemented includes protection for endangered rusty patched bumblebee, which experts say is near extinction
Donald Trump has been accused of targeting Muslims, media outlets and even department stores in his first month in the White House. Now, the US president may have doomed a threatened bumblebee.
An executive order freezing new regulations could push the rusty patched bumblebee towards extinction, environmental groups claim. The 60-day pause on all federal regulations that have yet to be implemented - which includes the bumblebee protection - will review "questions of fact, law, and policy they raise", according to the White House memo.
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