As part of Donald Trump's "Unleashing American Energy" executive order, rules that sought to protect the species have been rescinded.

The Rice’s whale is among the most endangered marine mammals on the planet — there may be as few as 51 left in the wild.

Rice's whales living off the Gulf Coast of Texas will lose some protections after the U.S. Department of the Interior this week rescinded its notice to oil and gas companies to take extra ...

The notice, which affects a large swath of the Gulf of Mexico, was put in place in 2023 to specifically protect Rice’s whale, an endangered marine mammal. While the exact number of Rice’s ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

That’s because the Trump administration lifted a layer of protection for the endangered Rice's whale. It is found only in the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump renamed to the Gulf of ...

A blue whale mother and calf are swimming together in the Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico, one of the warm-water places blue whales spend their winter months. Only two blue whale births have ...

The Rice’s whale, which lives in a sliver of the Gulf of Mexico including off Tampa Bay, was already decimated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and scientists and environmentalists ...

McDermott has completed the engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) activities at ...

activities in the Gulf of Mexico for Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell), a subsidiary of Shell plc., to begin oil production at its Whale development. Awarded in 2021 and completed last month ...

Louisiana's oil and gas industry is cheering a move by the Trump administration to roll back protections in the Gulf for the highly endangered Rice’s whale, though wildlife advocates warn it ...