Green Groups Fight to Defend Texas Bird After Biden Rule Struck

A Texas district court was wrong to deny environmental groups the right to intervene in a case to defend an endangered bird after the Trump administration allowed a Biden-era rule over the species to be wiped out without proper review, an appellate brief said.

“If this decision is allowed to stand, any federal rule could be challenged by an industry or advocacy group (of any ideological stripe) and be stripped from the books by judicial decree whenever a new administration decides to no longer defend it,” the Center for Biological Diversity and Texas Campaign for the Environment said in their ...