{"id":70490,"date":"2026-03-31T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/federal-god-squad-exempts-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-gulf-of-mexico-from-endangered-species-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:01:26","slug":"federal-god-squad-exempts-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-gulf-of-mexico-from-endangered-species-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/federal-god-squad-exempts-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-gulf-of-mexico-from-endangered-species-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal \u2018God squad\u2019 exempts oil and gas drilling in Gulf of Mexico from endangered species rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say exemption exploits White House\u2019s \u2018self-made gas crisis\u2019, and could doom the rare Rice\u2019s whale<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US government panel on Tuesday exempted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/oil\">oil<\/a> and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a move which critics say could doom a rare whale species and harm other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/marine-life\">marine life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Endangered Species Committee \u2013 which had not convened in more than three decades \u2013 voted to approve the request for the ESA exemption at the request of the defense secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/31\/gulf-of-mexico-drilling-endangered-species\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say exemption exploits White House\u2019s \u2018self-made gas crisis\u2019, and could doom the rare Rice\u2019s whale Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A US government panel on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a move &#8230; <a title=\"Federal \u2018God squad\u2019 exempts oil and gas drilling in Gulf of Mexico from endangered species rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/federal-god-squad-exempts-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-gulf-of-mexico-from-endangered-species-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal \u2018God squad\u2019 exempts oil and gas drilling in Gulf of Mexico from endangered species rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}