Endangered Species Committee; Federal “God Squad” Votes to Override Endangered Species Laws for Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

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Disaster happens when a sociopathic and greedy administration appoints the Endangered Species Committee, aka the "God Squad" for the first time in 30 years and convenes appointees that are fossil fuel advocates who were specifically appointed to systematically dismantle protections for endangered species in order to gut restrictions that inhibit Big Oil from drilling in areas that are inhabited by species that are in danger of becoming extinct. The members newly appointed to the ESC are the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth aka "Prosecco Pete", the Trump appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Lee Zeldin who is a career politician/shill, who has pushed major deregulation, including rolling back pollution and emissions rules, the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins who has helped shape the Trump administration’s anti-environmental policy, chaired by Doug Burgum, a politician and fossil fuel development businessman, along with three other Trump cronies.

"On the last day of March, the Trump administration convened the Endangered Species Committee, or so-called God Squad, a rarely used panel that has the power to condemn an endangered species to extinction. In an incredibly brief but deeply consequential meeting, the God Squad voted to allow oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico to move forward without regard to their impacts on the area’s critically imperiled species. Exempting these activities puts federally listed species, including the Rice’s whale, manatees, and five species of sea turtles, at risk of irreversible harm—and potentially extinction." (via NRDC.org)

“Extinction is an unacceptable price to pay for expediency, especially when long-established, commonsense practices can help energy development and wildlife recovery co-exist,” said Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. “Endangered species in the Gulf are not impeding our military readiness nor our strategic positions — and allowing harm to them will not make our troops or nation safer. We should be rallying the nation to recover America’s critically endangered species like the Rice's whale and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, and we urge oil companies to continue to follow responsible practices that protect wildlife, while we work with Congress and the courts on a responsible path forward.” (via NWF.org)

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