{"id":451201,"date":"2026-09-29T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451201\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:08:09","slug":"today-on-texas-standard-federal-changes-narrow-endangered-species-act-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451201\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on Texas Standard: Federal changes narrow Endangered Species Act protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has changed how the federal government interprets a key provision of the Endangered Species Act, narrowing when harm to protected wildlife can trigger penalties. The shift could affect industries whose activities alter habitat or unintentionally injure listed species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"meta \">By Texas StandardSeptember 29, 2026\u00a08:59 am<a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/ts-original\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Standard Original<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/show\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has changed how the federal government interprets a key provision of the Endangered Species Act,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-451201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}