Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on a group of fishermen suing the Biden administration over a requirement that they pay hundreds of dollars to have federal regulators monitor their work on "Special Report."after they say the government’s push to classify a lizard as an endangered species could have a devastating impact on the state’s oil and gas industry.
In a recent letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham wrote that the classification of the as an endangered species"could have a crippling impact on the oil and gas industry." "Although the proposed habitat of the DSL is not well or clearly defined, it appears to be located primarily in the Permian Basin of far West Texas, which is the beating heart of Texas’ – and the country’s – oil and gas industry and, therefore, one of the primary sources of revenue for education in Texas, by way of the School Fund and the PUF,"The letter states that"listing the DSL will surely bring with it a designation of critical habitat as well as rules strictly limiting, or...
"As Texas’ land commissioner, I steward over 13 million acres of rich Texas lands on behalf of the taxpayer," Buckingham told Fox News Digital."Many of these state lands are rich in natural resources and produce billions of dollars in benefits for Texans. The reckless actions by Biden and his USFWS directly threaten the quality of every Texas public school child's education.