#endangered-species-act — Public Fediverse posts

Waiving the #EndangeredSpeciesAct is an Abdication of Science and Moral Authority
The Trump administration invokes the #EndangeredSpeciesCommittee—a group of six people who are members of the Cabinet and other high-ranking officials, authorized to “waive” the protections of the Act—to push through some policy they couldn’t achieve through normal means. In just 15 minutes, issued a “waiver” for #oil and #gas production in the #GulfOfMexico that threaten #Endangeredspecies.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/waiving-the-endangered-species-act

Can we do more damage to the planet for the next generation? #ClimateCrisis #GodSquad #EndangeredSpeciesAct #SaveTheWhales #GulfOfMexico

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zqmge5vdvci6zqi46zy55oa4/post/3mieejeumyk23

‘#GodSquad’ Waives #Environmental Rules for #OffshoreDrilling
Panel voted to override #EndangeredSpeciesAct restrictions on #oil and #gas activities in the #GulfOfMexico, home to critically endangered #whales and other imperiled wildlife.
#EndangeredSpeciesCommittee, a high-level group that is often called the God Squad because it essentially holds the power to decide whether a species lives or dies, adopted the move during a brief, closed-door meeting on Tuesday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/climate/god-squad-whales-gulf.html

The #EndangeredSpeciesAct has NEVER been used to STOP #oil #drilling in the gulf, so doing away with protections will NOT meaningfully impact the amount of oil produced there, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group.

“I don’t think anyone honestly thinks that there’s a legitimate #NationalSecurity issue here,” Hartl said.

#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #wildlife #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth

“This is not just about gas prices. It’s about our ability to power our military & protect our nation,” #Hegseth told the committee. [what a load of crap]

“The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s busiest #oil route, & recent hostile action by the Iranian terror regime highlights yet again why robust domestic oil production is a national security imperative.” [which has nothing to do with the #EndangeredSpeciesAct]

#law #wildlife #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth

#Trump ofcls claimed the decision would protect critical domestic #energy production at a time when global supplies are disrupted by the #IranWar [a war of choice]. It’s the first time that any admin has sought a “#NationalSecurity” exemption since the passage of the 1973 #EndangeredSpeciesAct.

#Defense Sec Pete #Hegseth told the cmte the exemption was, “a matter of urgent national security,” saying active lawsuits based on the Endangered Species Act threatened to halt #oil & #gas production.

The committee led by #Trump’s #interior secretary voted Tuesday to exempt #oil & #gas companies from complying with the #EndangeredSpeciesAct when #drilling in the #GulfOfMexico, a move expected to threaten #RicesWhale & other #species with #extinction.

Meeting for the first time in more than 30 years, the group nicknamed for its ability to decide the fate of species, approved the exemption on [bullshit] “#NationalSecurity” grounds in a discussion that took about 15 minutes.

#law #MarineLife

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#FDT

#US panel votes to exempt #GulfOfMexico #drilling from #EndangeredSpeciesAct

The committee — nicknamed the “God Squad” for its ability to decide the fate of #species — voted to exempt #oil & #gas firms from federal #wildlife protections, citing the #IranWar.

#Trump #law #EnvironmentalLaw #science #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #MarineLife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/03/31/trump-god-squad-rices-whales-endangered-species/

OF course, the protections under the Endangered Species Act also help protect other things - like the marine #ecosystems that the Gulf coast states - from Florida to Texas - rely on for tourism, recreation and fisheries. Do they really want more Deepwater Horizons? More #OilSpills? More abandoned wells seeping oil into the waters?

Trump to revoke protections for endangered species in Gulf of Mexico
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/trump-protections-endangered-species-gulf-of-mexico?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

(Did you know the #EndangeredSpeciesAct came out of that radical left #Nixon Administration?)

#EndangeredSpeciesAct #GulfofMexico #Oil #Trump

From AP News.com: Judge won't block meeting that could exempt Gulf drilling from Endangered Species Act

https://apnews.com/article/trump-oil-endangered-species-act-gulf-iran-725b8c1e5b13c249dac2080369166e2f

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 voluntary agreements are an extinction plan," as our lead scientist
@jarosenfield describes the state's new Bay Delta Plan.

Endangered species will continue to plummet, more fisheries will shutter, and Tribes & Delta communities will continue to suffer with worse water quality.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/bay-delta-water-21325171.php

#cawater #californiawater #baydelta #baydeltaplan #endangeredSpecies #endangeredspeciesact #cadelta #californiadelta #fish #extinction

Trump Moves to Weaken #EndangeredSpeciesAct
Four proposed rules could make it easier to drill for #oil or harvest #timber in areas where #endangeredspecies live.
One of most contentious proposals would allow gov to assess economic factors, such as lost revenue from a ban on oil drilling near critical habitat, before deciding whether to list a species as endangered. Endangered Species Act requires government to consider only best available #science.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/climate/trump-endangered-species-act.html
https://archive.ph/CBNGU

So the federal register for public comment is giving me problems to submit comment on Protecting Threatened and Endangered Species

Anyone else experienceing this issue?

#endangeredspeciesact

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/protecting-threatened-and-endangered-species-could-get-lot-harder

Comments Needed! * Endangered Species Act Alert *

The Trump administration has officially proposed sweeping new rules that would fundamentally weaken the Endangered Species Act.

This is one of the most dangerous attacks on wildlife we have ever seen.

If these rules move forward - they will erase existing protections - and make it almost impossible to safeguard the habitats, plants, and animals need to survive.

The Endangered Species Act works. The ESA brought the bald eagle, Stellar sea lion and gray wolf back from the edge of disappearing forever.

Tell the Trump administration to keep their hands off the ESA!

Please be part of the movement to ensure 1 million comments are submitted by December 22nd.

There are four proposed rules, each with their own federal register submission link, and each needs you to comment.

To submit your comments:
a) Copy the text (Control+C) in each comment below, then
b) click the link in each comment below.
c) find and click the green box "Submit a comment"
d) paste the text into the comment box, and submit.

Since its passage in 1973, this landmark act has prevented the extinction of roughly 300 species — and more than 99% of the species have been saved or are on their way to recovery. This incredible law has also protected millions of acres of forests, mountains, rivers, deserts, beaches, and oceans.

Protect the Endangered Species Act. Do not weaken it.

Brought to you by:
Kettle Range Conservation Group
https://www.kettlerange.org

#Endangered #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredSpeciesAct #ESA #Wildlife #Habitat #Extinct #Extinction #BaldEagle #Wolf #Plants #Trump

It’s time to protect California's White Sturgeon.

CA's White Sturgeon populations have been in decline for 70 years. The state’s sturgeon coordinator says this population "may be the lowest it has ever been.”

As our lead scientist @jarosenfield notes, the greatest threats to sturgeon are water system management, including dams that reduce river flows and block connections between water systems; harmful algal blooms; and overfishing.

Thanks to Laurel Neme and @mongabay for the great article!

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/with-a-target-on-their-bellies-can-californias-sturgeon-survive/ #sturgeon #fish #endangeredSpecies #endangeredspeciesact

NMFS published a notice of their 12-month petition finding regarding listing #Oregon coast and northern #California Chinook salmon in the endangered species list. Their 'finding' was that 'these units do not warrant listing'.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/17/2021-17211/listing-endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-12-month-findings-on-petitions-to-list-spring-run-oregon

#NMFS #NOAA #DeptofCommerce #endangeredspeciesact

If you care about the Endangered Species Act, please take the time to comment on these attacks. Combined, they make the ESA useless and give companies a pass to destroy our environment. www.doi.gov/pressrelease... #endangeredspeciesact #ESA #AnimalRightsMatter #endangeredbirds

Administration Revises Endange...

Trump’s Attack on the Endangered Species Act Will Hurt More Than Just Wildlife

https://murica.website/2025/11/trumps-attack-on-the-endangered-species-act-will-hurt-more-than-just-wildlife/

BREAKING: We're putting the Trump administration on legal notice for killing and harming winter-run Chinook #Salmon, Central Valley #Steelhead, and Green #Sturgeon in the Bay-Delta.

“The Bureau of Reclamation is blatantly violating the #EndangeredSpeciesAct and putting the Bay’s most iconic fish species at greater risk of extinction,” as our lead attorney Eric Buescher said. “There is simply no excuse for its actions or refusal to comply with the law."

Thanks to our great coalition partners at the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the River

Read more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/environmental-groups-send-trump-administration-legal-notice-for-killing-endangered-species/

Illustration of a Central Valley Steelhead by Fiorella Ikeue

#endangeredspecies #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #fish #bureauofreclamation

Some important #ERO comment deadlines are approaching for #bill5 related matters:
https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1077 Special economic zones criteria, due Nov. 16
https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1081 Archaeology Exemption Criteria, due Nov. 16
https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0909 #SpeciesConservationAct (SCA) regulations, due Nov. 10.
https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0908 SCA guidance materials, due Nov. 10.

#onpoli #environment #democracy #Endangeredspecies #EndangeredSpeciesAct

Trump admin dismisses #EndangeredSpeciesList as “Hotel California”
"Once a species enters, they never leave," interior secretary says. He’s referring to the roster of more than 1,600 species of imperiled plants and animals that receive protections under #EndangeredSpecies Act to prevent extinctions.
Since January, #EndangeredSpeciesAct has been a frequent target of Trump. Number of conservative presidents and members of Congress have tried to soften the law’s power.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/trump-admin-dismisses-endangered-species-list-as-hotel-california/

Whitebark Pine In The United States Projected To Experience An 80% Reduction In Climatically Suitable Area By The Mid-21st Century
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adfcef <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29485691.v1 <-- (open) spatial data used/produced in study
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #whitebark #whitebarkpine #pine #conifer #tree #PNW #WestUSA #SWCanada #threatened #EndangeredSpeciesAct #blister #rust #disease #pinebeetle #climatechange #warming #elevation #highelevation #keystonespecies #biodiversity #forest #tree #ecology #suitabilitymaps #planting #WPB #range #wildlife #bear #bird #multifactor #analysis

Big win for one of California's most ancient--and imperiled--species!

A judge has ruled in our favor and for the survival of the Bay's White Sturgeon. The Feds now have to take action to assess the White Sturgeon population and ensure they have the protections they're entitled to under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct

https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-get-9-months-to-determine-if-san-francisco-estuary-white-sturgeon-is-threatened/ #sfbay #sanfranciscobay #sturgeon #fish #whitesturgeon #baywildlife

Gorsuch’s Snail Darter Argument

The Supreme Court this morning denied certiorari in Apache Stronghold v. US. This looks like the end of the road, at least the legal road, for this case. It also signals the start of something else: in short order, the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Resolution’s mine will be published, and that will trigger the transfer of Oak Flat to two foreign mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, joint owners of Resolution Copper.

(For more background, see this post, this, this, and this.)

Only Gorsuch and Thomas dissented; Alito did not participate. Gorsuch’s dissent is worth reading in its entirety. Here, I want to call out just one of his arguments. He’s pushing hard against the Ninth Circuit’s reasoning that the “disposition” of federal land does not substantially burden the free exercise of religion (even if the land in question happens to be essential to the exercise of that religion, as Oak Flat is to the Western Apache).

The truth is, Congress has adopted all sorts of laws restricting the government’s power to dispose of its real property. Take just one example, the Endangered Species Act. That law, this Court once held, required the government to halt “operation of a virtually completed federal dam” to protect the endangered “snail darter,” a “previously unknown species of perch.” TVA v. Hill, 437 U. S. 153, 156, 158 (1978). The Court read the Act to require that result even though Congress had spent more than $100 million on the dam—nearly half a billion in today’s dollars—and our holding effectively “‘divest[ed] the Government of its right to use what is, after all, its land.’” 101 F. 4th, at 1051 (quoting Lyng, 485 U. S., at 453). If Congress went to such lengths to accommodate the snail darter, why should we suppose it offered less protection to people practicing an ancient faith?

I get it, but the argument makes me uneasy. It comes close to holding the Endangered Species Act up to ridicule, and at a moment when the Act itself is under serious threat. Just last month, the Trump administration proposed a new rule that would change the definition of “harm” under the Act, such that habitat destruction would not constitute harm.

The federal government’s disposition of its real property often threatens the habitats of endangered species, as it did in Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, the case to which Gorsuch refers here. Were the Trump administration’s new rule in effect, the case would have gone the other way, or never have been brought at all. I imagine Gorsuch will revisit this argument, and say more about whether he considers the accommodations of the Endangered Species Act reasonable or ridiculous, should this new interpretation of the Act come before the Court.

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#RIO #ApacheStrongholdVUS #EndangeredSpeciesAct #extractiveIndustry #habitat #NeilGorsuch #SupremeCourt

I almost never post in English but this is something that I just read

please share this with your American friends that love nature

to summarise, there are plans to alter the Endangered Species Act to the detriment of wildlife and their habitat

please read, please take action, if you can 🙏🏾 ♥️ 🍀

(there are links in the linked post below where the American public can let their voice be heard)

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx7Tdybxg9g7x5aOgPA_oRvLE2N_kUNKPL

#EndangeredSpeciesAct #USA