Featured Environmental Group May Have Overstated Power Plant Pollution (Dave Fehling – Houston Public Media, 11/13/2015) “Back in September, the Texas chapter of the environmental group, the Sierra Club, said it had done its own analysis of pollution data from the Parish Power Plant. The huge plant burns tons of coal a day. It’s owned by NRG and sits on…
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…