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86th Texas Legislature Updates: March 5, 2019

Legislators continued to file bills for the 86th Texas Legislative Session. Bills of note relate to the establishment of the Bee Pollinator Goals Task Force to develop and report on statewide pollinator goals, Texas emissions reduction plan, effluent from oil and gas activities, energy efficiency standards, sand mining, windborne and waterborne litter, concrete plants, invasive species, wind-powered generation, and to retaliation against state employees for referring to climate change or global warming.

Environmental Headlines for the Houston Region: February 27, 2019

House Democrats examining EPA enforcement dropoff (James Osborne – Houston Chronicle, Updated 02/26/2019. Photo by Alex Edelman) House Democrats are investigating a dramatic drop off in enforcement action at the EPA under former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler during the Trump administration, as the president seeks to reduce regulations and build American industry. Among the non-actions…

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