“Trump’s National Marine Fisheries Service was regulating right whales toward extinction as the whales literally starved to death while entangled in fishing gear.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “has powerful tools to protect the North American right whale, but it is choosing not to use them,” said biologist Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “In this case, NOAA is choosing extinction.””