<h1>National energy emergency claim challenged as unlawful shortcut that would bypass environmental safeguards and emergency review.</h1> A coalition of state attorneys general challenges an executive order declaring a national energy emergency that directs agencies to use eminent domain and the Defense Production Act to fast-track energy projects, alleging it permits bypassing environmental review and permitting under the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act; plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to bar emergency permitting for non-emergency projects and to protect states' statutory water-quality authority.