https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/prairie-chicken-bidens-latest-weapon-war-fossil-fuels
The left’s war on fossil fuels knows no boundaries. Every line of attack will be pursued. The latest salvo came with the January listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened or endangered species by the Biden administration’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS). The listing covers the entirety of the bird’s habitat—which includes the southwest quarter of Kansas as well as the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma.
Recently I, along with the attorneys general of Texas and Oklahoma, filed a lawsuit in federal district court to stop the listing. We maintain that the Biden administration failed to meet the statutory criteria for listing the species. As a legal matter, we are confident that the Biden administration’s position will be found wanting.
The reason that the Biden administration moved forward with the listing has little to do with the prairie chicken, itself. Rather, it has everything to do with the war on fossil fuels. On top of that, it offered the Biden administration an opportunity to attack cattle ranching as well—the latest disfavored industry of the woke left.
The listing is a direct attack on the economy of Kansas, which is home to over 70 percent of the lesser prairie chicken population. It will make it virtually impossible to drill any new oil wells. And it forces ranchers to file annual grazing management plans with a federally-designated agency.