(The Center Square) – Texas has sued the Biden-Harris administration again, this time for classifying a lizard in the Permian Basin as an endangered species. The lawsuit claims the classification is in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
At the same time, Texas won the latest round of a nearly 10-year legal battle over a similar designation for a songbird.
Texas sued after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service classified the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard as an endangered species after more than a decade of public-private conservation efforts to expand its habitat in the oil-rich west Texas and southeastern New Mexico Permian Basin…