Celebrating the endangered Endangered Species Act

ONWARD THRU THE FOG. May 13, 2026

This week, we celebrate Endangered Species Day, an event that itself may be in peril by government efforts to weaken legal protections for threatened wildlife.

Among the habitats close to home, the federal government wants to reduce protections for species such as Rice’s whale to allow more oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Much of this controve…