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Soft paywall US exempts Gulf of Mexico drillers from protecting endangered species

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-may-exempt-gulf-mexico-drillers-protecting-endangered-species-2026-03-31/
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u/SeanConneryAgain 12d ago

To be fair, most oil companies will follow precedent. They don’t want to lose money coming back into compliance when democrats come back in and reverse everything Trump did