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Texas Attorney General Sues Biden Administration Over Endangered Listing Of Lizard In Oil-Rich Texas

Close-up of Insect on Yellow Surface. Representational Image. (Credit: Oleksandr P/Pexels.com)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior and the Biden administration are facing a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for "unlawfully" categorizing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species.

The 2.5-inch-long lizard lives in only about 4% of the 86,000-square-mile Permian Basin, which covers parts of Texas and New Mexico, as per the Fish and Wildlife Service.

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