( May 12, 2025, 9:07 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Fifteen states sued President Donald J. Trump and others on May 9 in Washington federal court arguing that Trump’s executive order titled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency” constitutes an “unlawful use of emergency permitting procedures that bypass critical ecological, historical, and cultural resource review” and that the order “commands that federal agencies disregard the law and in many cases their own regulations.”...