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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small, rare lizard in the deserts of southeast New Mexico was believed imperiled by oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin, ...

A U.S Fish and Wildlife proposal to add the dunes sagebrush lizard to the endangered species list has been extended for the second time in just over a decade as oil and gas interests push back on ...

A lizard species native to southeast New Mexico was the subject of a lawsuit filed last week against the federal government which the plaintiffs contended failed to protect the animal from extinction.

Drilling for oil and gas, and the infrastructure that supports it, harms the dunes sagebrush lizard, according to more than ...

MIDLAND, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a request in federal court Tuesday to defend long-overdue Endangered Species Act protections for the dunes sagebrush lizard. In May 2024 the U ...

Even before the dunes sagebrush lizard was designated a species in 1992, environmentalists wanted the reptile to have endangered species status. The rare lizard, which is only found in Southeast New ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today added the dunes sagebrush lizard of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas to the list of endangered species and pledged to follow up by ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered, threatening oil and gas development in the Permian Basin. The oil and gas industry argues they've made conservation ...

In contrast, the United States is blessed with tremendous sources of domestic energy that, if utilized, can protect us from suffering a similar energy-reliance disaster to Europe. In addition to ...