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Administration to Convene ‘God Squad’ With Power to Override #Environmental #Law
Trump admin plans to convene so-called #GodSquad, a high-level federal panel that has the power to override protections under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct
The meeting, scheduled for March 31, will focus on #oil and #gas drilling in the #GulfOfMexico. It will be the first time in three decades that the group, officially called the #EndangeredSpeciesCommittee, will gather.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/climate/god-squad-whales-gulf-oil.html
https://archive.ph/6pjrv

The meeting, planned for this month, will focus on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

The New York Times

A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’? | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/endangered-extinction-us-nature-protections-survive-trump-god-squad-aoe

Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling

The Guardian

#EO is specific to #Energy projects but sets dangerous broader precedent—with #ForestService's proposed #Amendment to the #NorthwestForestPlan likely to #jeopardize #NorthernSpottedOwl #survival & #recovery, very real danger #TrumpAdmin will condemn #NSO to #extinction for more #timber boardfeet.

The president wants to convene the rarely used panel, which has the power to carve out exemptions to the Endangered Species Act. Here’s what to know.

The New York Times