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Posted on 09/23/2024 11:06:21 AM PDT by DFG
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the administration of President Joe Biden over an endangered lizard found in West Texas.
The dunes sagebrush lizard, found in southeastern New Mexico and four Texas counties, was classified as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in May. Typically about 2.5 inches long, the lizards are found in the Permian Basin, which is an epicenter of oil and gas production in the U.S.
However, Paxton argues that this classification is improper and violates the Endangered Species Act, and says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to use the best data available when designating the lizard as endangered. He also argues that this actin would undermine important economic development in the Permian Basin, leaving industries and landowners in the area uncertain about what they can do, despite the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service saying otherwise.
“The Biden-Harris Administration’s unlawful misuse of environmental law is a backdoor attempt to undermine Texas’s oil and gas industries which help keep the lights on for America,” Paxton said in a statement. “I warned that we would sue over this illegal move, and now we will see them in court.”
In a statement made upon the new designation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said oil and gas companies can use horizontal drilling to reach deposits without disrupting the lizards' habitat.
The department also said about 100 ranchers and 100 oil and gas partners have entered into voluntary agreements to use conservation practices in regards to endangered species while continuing to manage their land.
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These sagebrush lizards are NOT endangered.
They’re literally all over town. I have probably 20 in my garage at any time.
It’s literally a scam to try to impede drilling operations in the Permian Basin.
Absolutely correct IMHO.
Geographic distribution
The geographic range of S. graciosus includes much of the western United States. It can be found throughout Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, Texas, and western Colorado. It is also widely distributed throughout areas of Wyoming, Oregon, California, Washington, western North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The sagebrush lizard has been found to live at elevations ranging from 500 to 10,500 ft (150 to 3,200 m).
IOW it's about as endangered as rabbits, squirrels, or chipmunks.
It is amazing the power that un-elected individuals can control the fate of our country. The constitution reserves such powers for congress. And it does not give congress the power to pass of their duties either. Otherwise why would we need representatives.
How many Haitians do you have in town?
Geographic distribution
The geographic range of S. graciosus includes much of the western United States. It can be found throughout Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, Texas, and western Colorado. It is also widely distributed throughout areas of Wyoming, Oregon, California, Washington, western North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The sagebrush lizard has been found to live at elevations ranging from 500 to 10,500 ft (150 to 3,200 m).
IOW it’s about as endangered as rabbits, squirrels, or chipmunks.
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Interesting, but S. graciosus is the Fence Lizard. The protection order applies to Sceloporus arenicolus, an entirely different animal whose numbers have been falling rapidly for 2 decades.
The mexicans don’t like blacks, so they flee to Houston
they are just so delicious... deep fried and on a stick... that’s some good fair food right there.
Get the wrong sort of illegal aliens (as if there was a “right sort”), and that lizard might become endangered ...
They’re tiny.
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Not a lot.
We put work boots and job applications on the way into town, so they turn around.
Probably your best move to protect the lizard ...
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I’m monitoring the ducks in the city duck pond. So far, so good.
The ones in Odessa did, however, get eaten years ago (not joking).
My mistake. Thanks for the correction. /NO SARC
(I know a lot about a lot of things, but zoology is not one of them.)
“These sagebrush lizards are NOT endangered.
They’re literally all over town. I have probably 20 in my garage at any time.
It’s literally a scam to try to impede drilling operations in the Permian Basin.”
Cranston, Feinstein, and the Sierra Club did the same thing in the southwest over the Desert Tortoise. I was personally right in the middle of it. The study was a rigged set up. They were out looking for and counting Tortoises in the middle of the summer with 125 degree heat and in the middle of the day. Of course they didn’t find but one or two of the few “stupid” Tortoises.
“They are endangered” not they are not, they are just “smarter than you are” and underground out of the heat. Well we all know what kind of huge land steal that turned out to be. That particular event was the beginning of all the environmental laws we have now.
We have those in Arizona too.
I get the idea of Punishing Texas, since this is a Democrat government, but the thing is, they’re also PUNISHING EUROPE, by limiting our ability to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), which will bring Europe to its knees, since we also took out their gas supply from Russia.
Hard to read their minds in DC, but they, of course, HATE TEXAS, but do they also hate their suck-ups in Europe? Seems to be the case, at least to me.
They did the same scam.
I think they picked open, barren, areas, intead of the dark nooks and crannies where the lizard actually hangs out.
A lizard that is easy prey for hawks and owls isn’t going wander through a desert field.
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