TL;DR: Environment protection laws have a very specific loophole: A committee can gather to provide exemptions for projects that would violate EPA laws. Most recently, they met to grant exemptions for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. This would endanger Rice’s whale, which only lives in the Gulf.
TL;DR: Environment protection laws have a very specific loophole: A committee can gather to provide exemptions for projects that would violate EPA laws. Most recently, they met to grant exemptions for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. This would endanger Rice’s whale, which only lives in the Gulf.