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A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to refuse to designate critical habitat for highly endangered rusty patched bumblebees and ordered the Service to reconsider. Despite the bees having been listed as an endangered species in 2017, in part due to the loss of 99% of their native grasslands in the Northeast and upper Midwest, the Service determined in September 2020 that designating critical habitat for them was “not prudent.” The agency claimed that lack of habitat did not limit the bees’ conservation. Rejecting that claim, the judge held that the Service could forego designating critical habitat for the bees “only if the designation would not be beneficial for the species,” which the judge found was not supported by the record. The Trump administration decision to deny critical habitat contradicted the agency’s own findings that habitat loss and degradation have contributed to the species’ decline, according to the rul

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