Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lizard native to southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin was afforded the highest level of federal protections aimed at preventing ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman August Pfluger on Friday introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the Biden Administration’s U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service final rule listing the dunes ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration officials, as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of the Interior over the classification of ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. (Courtesy Photo) The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s recent listing ...

The tiny dunes sagebrush lizard may blend in with the mounds of sand peppering the oil-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, but its recently approved status as an endangered species has ...

On May 20, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a final rule listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The listing does not include a designation ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued two federal agencies over the addition of a small West Texas lizard to the endangered species list, accusing them of “weaponizing environmental law” to ...

A lizard native to southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin was afforded the highest level of federal protections aimed at preventing its extinction, triggering concerns that landowners and industries in ...