BREAKING: The Trump administration just sold out endangered species to benefit oil and gas interests. Today Trump's Endangered Species Committee — much better described as the Extinction Committee — granted an unprecedented exemption today to all oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico from the requirements of the Endangered Species Act. This is the first such exemption in the law's 53-year history. The committee, also known as the God Squad or Extinction Committee, used the pretext of “national security” to justify this exemption, which will likely drive the extremely endangered Rice’s whale to extinction. It will also deliver a crushing blow to the conservation of dozens of other threatened and endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, including sea turtles, sperm whales, whooping cranes and manatees. The wild part? The committee granted the exemption despite the fact that no company from the oil and gas industry or any federal agency has requested it. Our fight is far fr...