US EditionGuest Column: Expanding Drilling in the Gulf Won’t Make Us Secure
The committee will consider exemptions from Endangered Species Act protections for Gulf oil projects, with only about 51 Rice's whales remaining, federal officials said.
- The Trump administration called the Endangered Species Committee for a March 31 virtual meeting to review exemptions related to oil and gas activities, with no species or projects specified.
- The move follows existing ESA exemption procedures that require an Interior Department review timeline of 20 days, a possible 140-day hearing, and a 30-day committee decision.
- The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved a $5 billion deepwater project in the Gulf of America the same night the committee notice appeared, and BP's Kaskida could unlock about 10 billion barrels and produce up to 80,000 barrels per day.
- Historically, the Endangered Species Committee has only completed three actions, highlighting its rare use despite its authority to exempt projects from ESA protections.
- Amid warnings, the Biden administration is considering exemptions that could ease ESA constraints on offshore development, following a 2024 court order that found oil activity could drive the Rice's whale to extinction, and February rollbacks of precautions.
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NolaGuest Column: Expanding drilling in the Gulf won’t make us secure
The Trump administration is proposing a sweeping move that would open more than a billion acres of coastal waters to drilling. Here in the Gulf of Mexico, it includes five lease sales off of Texas and Louisiana and two more…
Donald Trump will study oil drilling in protected areas of the Gulf of Mexico in his God Squad plan.
Washington (EFE).- The government of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, will study allowing oil drilling in protected areas of the Gulf of Mexico that harbour endangered species, a movement that has provoked criticism from environmental groups. The Republican administration has convened for the first time in decades the Committee on Endangered Species, known as the ‘God Squad’, a federal panel that has the power to reverse protect…
• Donald Trump boosts energy expansion in his new mandate• Reactivate federal panel with power to eliminate environmental protections• Environmentalists warn impact on endangered species and marine ecosystems Review of permits in sensitive ecological areasThe U.S. government analyzes allowing the drilling of oil and gas in protected areas of the Gulf of Mexico, where endangered species live.The measure seeks to expand energy production, but has …
The U.S. President's government, Donald Trump, will study allowing oil drilling of protected areas in the Gulf of Mexico that harbour endangered species, a movement that has sparked criticism from environmental groups.The Republican administration has convened for the first time in decades the Committee on Endangered Species, known as the 'God Squad', a federal panel that has the power to reverse protections to plants and animals, according to a…
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