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The Tiny Texas Reptile Testing the “Drill, Baby, Drill” Agenda
In the oil-rich Permian Basin, the dunes sagebrush lizard faces extinction. Will Donald Trump finally do it in?
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Texas ready to sue the federal government to protect its oil industry. The target? Endangered lizards
The dunes where the lizards evolved make up just under 4% of the oil-rich Permian Basin landscape, Fitzgerald said, and they cannot be restored once destroyed. Trade groups representing the oil ...
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Lawsuit Aims to Protect Dunes Sagebrush Lizard From Extinction
The agency has delayed protecting the lizard for four decades. The lizard lives in a very small area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico overlaying a part of the Permian Basin, which over the ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
But the Permian detectives are faced with a host ... Often called mammal-like reptiles—they looked like a cross between a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty ...
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Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Finally Protected as Endangered in New Mexico, Texas
The lizards are native to a small portion of the Permian Basin and have lost more than 95% of their habitat to oil and gas development and the mining of sand for fracking. “What a tremendous relief ...