Featured New Texas House Committee to Examine EPA Rules (Jim Malewitz – The Texas Tribune, 11/5/2015) “A new Texas House committee will investigate how federal environmental rules affect the state and its economy. House Speaker Joe Straus on Thursday announced that the House Committee on Federal Environmental Regulation will examine a litany of new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency efforts that…
Featured Despite EPA, Texas can ‘whoop’ with joy at whooping cranes return (Breitbart Texas, 10/26/2015) “Unbeknownst to the Whooping Crane, this past May, seven years of litigation over water rights and the Whooping Crane habitat finally wrapped up in the Supreme Court. In Aransas Project v. Shaw an Endangered Species Act (ESA) claim had been directed at the Texas Commission…
The City will consider the following agenda items at the November 4, 2015, Houston City Council Meeting: 27- Establishing a program under the Texas Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACEâ€) Act of 2013 for City of Houston and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. 30- Approving and authorizing Interlocal Agreement between the City and the HOUSTON PARKS BOARD LGC, INC for the Construction of Improvements at…