{"id":2508,"date":"2025-01-28T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/could-trump-use-the-god-squad-to-override-environmental-law\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T10:15:55","slug":"could-trump-use-the-god-squad-to-override-environmental-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/could-trump-use-the-god-squad-to-override-environmental-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Trump Use the \u2018God Squad\u2019 to Override Environmental Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In at least two executive orders since he took office last week, President Trump has invoked a panel with a telling nickname: the God Squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The committee is made up of high-level officials who can override the landmark Endangered Species Act so that development or other projects can proceed even if they might result in an extinction. It\u2019s called the God Squad because its members \u201cliterally have the authority over the life and death of the species,\u201d said Patrick Parenteau, an emeritus professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School who, in the late 1970s, had a hand in writing the legislative language that created the God Squad provision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey can cause the species to go extinct from the face of the earth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The power to convene the committee comes from an amendment to the act itself, but it has rarely been used. And just because Mr. Trump says he plans to use it now, legal experts emphasize, it doesn\u2019t mean he will be successful. There are stringent procedural requirements that have to come first.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2ef2c641\">How does the \u2018God Squad\u2019 work?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officially named the Endangered Species Committee, the group is led by the interior secretary and composed of five other senior officials: the secretaries of agriculture and the Army, the head of the Council of Economic Advisers and the administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Each has a vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It also includes one person each from any affected states, whose votes collectively add up to one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When a federal action in question is deemed to be in the public interest and is nationally or regionally significant, the members of the committee can decide that major economic factors outweigh the Endangered Species Act\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If five of the seven votes are in favor of a project proceeding, it can do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The God Squad has ruled three times since it was created in 1978. One exemption was denied, and two were permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A dam was allowed to proceed in 1979 despite concerns about whooping cranes, but the project included significant measures to help the birds, whose numbers have grown over time. In the other, related to the northern spotted owl, environmental groups sued in 1992 after an exemption was given for logging, arguing that the committee\u2019s decision had violated legal procedures and was based in politics rather than science. The Bureau of Land Management withdrew its request for the exemption.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-191d176e\">How is Trump trying to use it now?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has referred to the committee in at least two executive orders since taking office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an order that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/21\/climate\/trump-energy-fossil-fuels.html\" title=\"\">declares a national energy emergency<\/a>, Mr. Trump directs the interior secretary to \u201cconvene the Endangered Species Act Committee not less than quarterly, unless otherwise required by law.\u201d If there are no applications for the committee to review, then it should still meet to \u201cto identify obstacles to domestic energy infrastructure\u201d related to the Endangered Species Act or the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the order says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-california-wildfires-water.html\" title=\"\">another executive order<\/a>, made public on Sunday and related to the management of California\u2019s water, the president orders the interior secretary to expedite any actions related to an exemption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But unless the group is reviewing a request for a specific exemption for a specific action, environmental lawyers say, it\u2019s not acting as the God Squad. And to convene the God Squad, the law requires that certain procedures be met. These can take a long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt seems like they believe that the God Squad can wave its hand and declare a particular species no longer within the protection of the Endangered Species Act,\u201d said Drew Caputo, vice president of litigation for lands, wildlife and oceans at Earthjustice, an environmental law organization that sued the federal government in the spotted owl case. \u201cThat\u2019s not how the process works at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Consultation in good faith has to have occurred. Alternatives have to have been considered. Biological opinions have to be issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If any of these criteria are not met? \u201cThen you go to court,\u201d Mr. Parenteau said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On top of all that, the group applying for the exemption from the committee must pay for any required actions to try to preserve the species, possibly forever. Congress made the entire process somewhat onerous by design, lawyers say, because the stakes of extinction are so high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The executive order related to California water involves several threatened or endangered fish, including the delta smelt, a fish that Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/22\/climate\/trump-delta-smelt.html\" title=\"\">targeted in his first administration<\/a> and which he has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/us\/trump-newsom-water-fires.html\" title=\"\">inaccurately linked to the devastating fires<\/a> in the Los Angeles region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf a case actually gets to the Trump administration God Squad, I would absolutely expect an exemption,\u201d Mr. Parenteau said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t see a case getting there, and certainly not the delta smelt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/climate\/trump-endangered-species-god-squad.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In at least two 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