"The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Tuesday over public records related to the Trump administration's efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to compel the Interior Department, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Commerce, and National Marine Fisheries Service to release records about how the rollbacks were developed.
The changes, announced by the Fish and Wildlife Service in November, would restore four rules to align with the president's "directives to strengthen American energy independence, improve regulatory predictability and ensure federal actions align with the best reading of the law," according to a news release at the time.
They would also "revise Biden administration regulations finalized in 2024 that expanded federal reach, created unnecessary complexity and departed from the statute’s clear language.""
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