Nicknamed the "God Squad" by groups who say it can decide a species' fate, the government's Endangered Species Committee ...

One of the world’s rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand ...

The God Squad met for the first time since 1991, and members said it's OK to bypass the Endangered Species Act in order to ...

The Endangered Species Committee, known as the “God Squad,” has voted unanimously to exempt the oil and gas industry in the ...

A federal court has overturned four key provisions of regulations that weakened the Endangered Species Act, issued by the Trump administration in 2019 and retained under the Biden administration.

The alterations came during President Donald Trump's first term, after he ordered a rollback of "unnecessary regulatory ...

Citing "national security," the federal Endangered Species Committee has voted to exempt Gulf oil companies from the ...

Oil drilling is now exempt from following critical endangered species rules, a decision that could doom a rare whale species ...

Scientists fear that expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could push the giant mammal to extinction.