Endangered Species Committee

(Newser) - The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists' lawsuits threatened domestic energy supplies as the US wages war against Iran. Critics say the move by the Endangered Species Committee could doom...

(Newser) - A little-known federal panel with the power to greenlight projects even if they could wipe out a species is about to convene for the first time since the George HW Bush era. As Bloomberg reports, the Endangered Species Committee—nicknamed the "God Squad" for its authority to effectively seal...