The American Petroleum Institute, Chevron USA Inc., and other intervenors were able to drop their appeal in a suit over oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
The intervenors initially sought to appeal a district court decision that vacated the National Marine Fisheries Service’s biological opinion for how development would affect marine life in the area President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of America.
Environmental groups including the Sierra Club challenged the agency’s analysis of the impact of offshore oil activities on local species, and proved successful when …