Ben Cowan, a partner in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Environmental + Natural Resources Practice Group, was quoted in the July 29, 2026, E&E News, article, “Trump Bets Chevron’s Fall Lets Him Rewrite Rules for Imperiled Wildlife,” on ESA Rollback and Regulatory Landscape Post-Loper Bright. The article also appeared in Politico Pro.

“There will be a bitter fight over this rule in the courts,” said Ben Cowan, an environmental attorney at the firm Troutman Pepper Locke.

“We don’t really know how this is going to be enforced,” said Cowan, the attorney at Troutman Pepper Locke, who often represents renewable energy developers. He said the new interpretation of “harm” promises to become another policy “yo-yo” that changes depending on who is in the White House.

“If that deregulation is unpredictable and just results in a constantly changing regulatory regime,” Cowan said, “it doesn’t help.”

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