The rare Rice's whale is further endangered by inadequate protection from Gulf of Mexico oil drilling, the Sierra Club claims ...

Earthjustice is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service alleging it's ignoring its duty to help protect endangered marine ...

The U.S. government is facing a backlash after it concluded that the oil and gas industry off the Gulf Coast is likely ...

A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the northern Gulf of Mexico ... including the Sierra Club, sued the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2020.

Sierra Club Senior Attorney Devorah Ancel said ... distinct from Bryde’s whales and are only found in the Gulf of Mexico. The fisheries service developed what it said was a “reasonable ...

Next year could prove to be a make-or-break year for the existence of the Rice’s Whale, one of the rarest whales in the world found only in the Gulf of ... The Sierra Club, the Center for ...

Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the president-elect seemed to tie the prospective renaming to his long ...

The decision drew praise from environmental groups including the Sierra Club and the Center ... to scale back an oil and gas auction in the Gulf of Mexico by 6 million acres to reduce conflicts ...

“The Trump administration is working overtime to give corporate polluters free rein over our lands and waters, and imperiled wildlife and Gulf ecosystems are paying the price,” said Sierra ...