The Food and Drug Administration’s renewed push to regulate e-cigarettes could interfere with the Biden administration’s plans to ban menthol-flavored tobacco products, a long-sought goal of public health groups.

On Nov. 18, the agency will square off in a federal district court with anti-tobacco groups that say it has unreasonably delayed action to limit the minty flavor in tobacco products, despite ample evidence of menthol’s toll on public health.