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Climate change has had lasting effects on countries, communities, people and every organism that walks the Earth. In California, the effects have been particularly devastating; a coastal state already affected heavily by wildfires, drought and unhoused populations gets deeply impacted by the increased temperatures and rising sea levels. In my home town of San Jose, all of these issues are strongly evident, with several policies being established to protect the people of the c

Enacted in 1973 with overwhelming, near-unanimous bipartisan support under President Richard Nixon, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was established to create a comprehensive federal framework aimed at preventing extinction, identifying "endangered" and "threatened" species, and legally safeguarding the critical habitats required for their long-term recovery. Now, more than 50 years after its passing, regulatory updates initiated during the Trump administration have begun sys