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…
Featured Report: Texas already on path to meeting most Clean Power Plan goals (Jordan Blum – FuelFix, October 14, 2015) The federal government’s proposed Clean Power Plan would have relatively minimal impacts on Texas because the state is already on track to meet 88 percent of the carbon emission reduction goals by 2030, according to a new study released by the non-profit…