Biden Official Should Visit Permian Basin

This week, I sent a letter inviting the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to the Permian Basin to hold a public hearing on the Biden Administration's decision to list the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered.

On the campaign trail, President Biden promised to kill the fossil fuel industry, and that's the only promise we can count on him keeping. His latest tactic—listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species so he can shut down drilling in the Permian—is just the latest in a string of assaults on the Permian Basin and our way of life. 

The Biden Administration’s Director in charge of listing this lizard has not visited the Permian Basin or provided me with scientific evidence to back up the claim that the lizard is "endangered." If they are willing to cripple the energy industry, threaten our national security, and obliterate tens of thousands of jobs in our district in a so-called effort to save a lizard, they need to face the communities they want to destroy. 

The Daily Caller covered my efforts to protect energy workers from the Biden Administration's efforts to halt drilling. Read it here.