DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a new bill to nix the Biden administration’s protections for a lizard species that critics argue will restrict oil and gas development.

The Texas Republican unveiled his Congressional Review Act bill to walk back the Biden administration’s decision to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard, a species that is indigenous to parts of New Mexico and West Texas, under the Endangered Species Act. Cruz and other critics of the designation have asserted that the lizard’s protections are more likely intended to complicate oil and gas development in the Permian Basin, an oil- and gas-rich region of West Texas and New Mexico.

The lizard is less than 3 inches long, excluding the length of its tail,........

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