Industry Groups, Red States Seek to Restore Trump Species Rules

The American Petroleum Institute, American Farm Bureau Federation, and other industry associations joined Republican-led states in seeking reversal of a judge’s decision tossing Trump-era endangered species rules.

The groups and states want the Ninth Circuit to restore rules that changed how agencies classify endangered or threatened species and their habitats under the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration also changed how agencies worked with each other to reduce harms to listed species.

Returning to pre-2019 regulations would cause confusion and irreparable harm, the groups and states told the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Their arguments failed ...