WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Office of Management and Budget today seeking the lists of agency environmental safeguards targeted for cancellation or modification by Trump’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency.”

This information will shed light on the full scope of the administration’s efforts to weaken environmental protections like the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act.

“Elon Musk may be out but the tech-bro operatives he left behind are still taking a chainsaw to federal environmental protections,” said Stephanie Kurose, deputy director of Government Affairs at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The public deserves to know exactly how DOGE and this entire administration plan to screw us over by greenlighting more air and water pollution, bulldozing our public lands and condemning our most vulnerable wildlife to extinction.”

On Feb. 19 President Trump signed “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department Of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative,” an executive order that lays out Trump’s blueprint for “the deconstruction of the . . . administrative state.”

Among Trump’s key directives is an order requiring agencies to complete a review of their regulations that should be targeted for rescission or modification.

The Center submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for these potential regulatory rollbacks in April but has received no communication from the Office of Management and Budget for more than two months. FOIA is meant to ensure public access to information about the functioning of federal agencies by guaranteeing a response within 20 business days of a request.

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the Center has filed numerous FOIA lawsuits seeking public records of the administration’s anti-environment and anti-regulatory agenda. These records include emails and other documents detailing plans to redefine the regulatory definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act to eliminate protections for habitat degradation and other “indirect” harms.