"If the courts disagree, one of the administration’s biggest environmental rollbacks is at risk."
"For decades, presidents of both parties and the Supreme Court have agreed that federal law prevents developers from destroying habitat critical to vulnerable wildlife. The Trump administration is now making the case that a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending judicial deference to federal agencies gives it room to reverse that longstanding interpretation.
The problem: Many environmental lawyers say the high court’s 2024 decision doesn’t go nearly that far. If they’re right, one of the administration’s biggest efforts to narrow the Endangered Species Act could face an uphill battle in court.
“There will be a bitter fight over this rule in the courts,” said Ben Cowan, an environmental attorney at the firm Troutman Pepper Locke."
