Modernized Endangered Species Act regulations instituted by the Trump administration will be reinstated after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled September 21 that a district court improperly vacated the 2019 revisions. The appeals court determined a district court erred by reversing the regulations without determining whether they were actually unlawful.
Those rules were largely supported by agriculture, but not so much by environmentalists—and so the ping pong of Endangered Species Act rules has continued back and forth. The latest action reinstates the Trump-era ESA regulations…
