Trump has revived a little-utilized part of the Endangered Species Act — formally the Endangered Species Committee, but often called the “God Squad” as it can decide whether species may go extinct — in a purported effort to boost oil and gas development in the Gulf of America Mexico.

Your favorite legal minds — Scott Greacen of Friends of the Eel River, Matt Simmons of EPIC and Jen Marlow from CalPoly Humboldt — join the show to discuss the legal basis for the God Squad, its invocation by Trump, and the potential for it to be used in the Pacific Northwest.