3 Issues with Industry Regulation of the West Texas Lizard.

Why did the State fired the Texas Habitat Conservation Foundation, a group created to implement west Texas lizard protection? 

• It failed to do any habitat restoration work 
• It failed to monitor drillers & landowners “to ensure they were performing conservation measures to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard”

What did the director of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law and Business at the University of Texas say about this private lizard protection effort? It needed more transperancy in who was involved and what they were doing.

What does the private entity that was formerly charged with protecting the lizard say? Its a disagreement over what constitutes mitigation

What entity replaced the Texas Habitat Conservation Foundation? Bio-West, a subcontractor of the Texas Habitate Conservation Foundation

Statesman | State fires organization formed by Big Oil to manage threatened lizard