Please join the CEC in honoring and thanking all who served in the United States Armed Forces. We give extra thanks to those veterans who have been part of environmental programs within the U.S. Armed Services and in their communities. With well over a million employees and extensive land holdings, the US Military has a tremendous impact on the environment, including being…
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…