Washington Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general that filed two federal lawsuits Wednesday challenging Trump administration rules that strip habitat protections from the Endangered Species Act.
Wednesday's filings add a wildlife docket to a caseload that already includes Medicaid, elections, and climate rules.
That reading is what Interior just deleted.
Wednesday's state cases pick up that thread at a national scale, with Washington at the counsel table rather than as a bystander.
Tribal Suits From July Now Sit Alongside the States in Federal Court Wednesday's filings are not the first challenge to the harm rule.
Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading two federal lawsuits challenging Trump administration rules that strip habitat protections from the 1973 law, with southern resident orcas and salmon at the center of the state's case.