"The Endangered Species Committee is scheduled to convene Tuesday to discuss a never-before-used national security exemption."
"A federal judge has declined to act on an emergency request from an environmental group to stop the Trump administration from exploring an exemption to the Endangered Species Act for oil and gas drilling, setting the stage for an unusual government meeting to be held next week.
The rarely convened Endangered Species Committee is set to meet Tuesday to discuss an exemption under the Endangered Species Act related to fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of America.
During a Friday hearing, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declined to grant an emergency effort by the Center for Biological Diversity to put a stop to the meeting through a lawsuit filed last week."
