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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans""><img width="624" height="147" style="width:6.5in;height:1.5312in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D75C5E.BE32A3F0"></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">June 8, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">Gov. Little pushes back on Biden for undoing Trump’s progress on environmental regulations<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little issued the following statement today in response to an announcement by the Biden Administration Friday that it will undo years of progress in modernizing the Endangered
Species Act under the leadership of President Donald Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">“The Biden Administration’s announcement that it intends to undo much of the hard work that has gone into modernizing the application of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
is a major disappointment. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">“Revisions to the ESA and its implementing regulations have been long overdue. Dismantling the progress we’ve made so far will not improve the Act’s effectiveness. It
only serves to reinstate unnecessary regulatory burdens on the states and local communities that are most critical to the ESA’s success.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">“Idaho has and will continue to advocate for a common-sense application of the ESA that recognizes the fundamental role regulatory flexibility plays in achieving the goals
of the Act – by empowering states and local communities to lead the conservation charge to recover listed species.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Marissa Morrison, Press Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">208-943-1686 or
</span><a href="mailto:marissa.morrison@gov.idaho.gov"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">marissa.morrison@gov.idaho.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">
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