Apparently, Texans have a Congressman, who is willing to fight against the Texas EPA czar, Al Armendariz, a professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. But ironically, the United States Representative is a Republican hailing from the state of New Mexico. His name is U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, who contends that protecting oil and gas drilling jobs deserve greater importance than protecting a few dunes sagebrush lizards that happen to inhabit the Permian Basin region of the Lone Star state.

Bloomberg Businessweek reports that, “frustration is swelling among residents and lawmakers in one of the most productive oil and natural gas basins in the nation, and it’s all because federal wildlife managers have proposed endangered species protections for a small lizard

In recent years, environmentalists have been filing dozens of lawsuits in efforts to protect hundreds of species. Most receive scant attention as they work their way through the court system and through the offices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, “the case of the dunes sagebrush lizard is unfolding much differently across southeastern New Mexico and West Texas, where refineries, drilling rigs and pump jacks are as common as skyscrapers in the big city. From Midland, Texas to Artesia, N.M., hundreds of people have turned out in recent weeks for town hall gatherings, rallies an public meetings to oppose the listing. The latest rally was planned for Thursday night in Roswell.”

U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce (R.-N.M.) told the Associated Press in an interview that, “we’re not going to stand idly by and watch the economies of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas de devastated. I think people are just ready to march in the streets. They’re ready to say enough is enough. We can’t manage the entire country for a single species at a time.”

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