Oil Vs. Wildlife: Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Lizard’s Endangered Status

It’s being tested in the Midwest with the promise of offering farmers a variety that can withstand powerful windstorms that could become more frequent due to climate change. Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.

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Trump has vowed to again withdraw from the Paris Agreement, as well as from the overarching UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Countries have a chance to use this week’s UN meetings in New York to resolve big differences over boosting the world’s annual goal for climate finance, but uncertainty over the U.

The Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, asked the state’s attorney general to challenge the lizard’s endangered status. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration on Monday for declaring the dunes sagebrush lizard an endangered species, saying the politically motivated decision could harm property owners and energy production.

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