"The Trump administration is planning on ending a policy that requires oil drillers, miners and land developers to pay the government for damages its work can have on wildlife and habitats on public land.

Bloomberg News reported that the administration on Tuesday plans to announce that the Interior Department will stop requiring off-site “compensatory mitigation."

Bloomberg notes that the policy was expanded in the final days of the Obama administration and ordered developers to offset the impacts of their actions on public lands. As part of the policy, developers could offset these impacts by doing things such as funding the restoration and protection of wetlands and other habitats."

Justin Wise reports for The Hill July 24, 2018. [2]