There are only 51 Rice’s whales left on Earth. They live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico — that’s their whole world. Today, the Trump administration’s “God Squad” voted to strip their Endangered Species Act protections so oil drilling could proceed unobstructed. No energy company even asked for this.

That would be devastating if those whales are gone. No more whale watching. Can you imagine that?

As one law professor put it:

“If Trump is successful here, he could be the first person in history to knowingly extirpate a species from the face of the earth.”