BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) \u2014 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador submitted formal comments this week to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), calling on the agency to delist grizzly bears from the Endangered Species Act (ESA).<\/p>\n
According to a recent news release, the comments respond to a revised proposal the Trump Administration issued July 17, 2026, revising the Endangered Species Act’s “4d rule” governing grizzly bear protections in the Lower 48 states.<\/p>\n
That proposal followed a separate version the Biden Administration issued Jan. 15, 2025, the week before leaving office, which Idaho criticized at the time. The Trump Administration undertook a review of the rule before issuing its own proposal this summer.<\/p>\n
Labrador’s letter supports the Trump Administration’s stated goal of cutting federal bureaucracy and expanding state flexibility, while identifying specific changes still needed in the July proposal to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n
The release adds that a separate broader rulemaking to revise the grizzly bear’s underlying ESA listing status remains in progress under a court settlement between USFWS and Idaho with a December 2026 deadline. Labrador’s letter states that Idaho’s position is that the bears should be delisted entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) \u2014 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador submitted formal comments this week to the U.S. Fish and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-819341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}