Conflicting reports are swirling around Arizona about a potential killing of an ESA-listed Mexican gray wolf in the state.
A California federal judge axed Trump-era Endangered Species Act rollbacks on regulations, potentially hindering progress by agricultural producers. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jon S Tigar voided laws that allowed economic factors to play on whether species could be listed as endangered or threatened. The ruling also removed protections that made listing species and threatened or endangered more difficult.
A federal judge relisted the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act, leaving many farming and ranching organizations disappointed.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt unveiled changes to implementing regulations of the Endangered Species Act.