Texas has sued the EPA in a fight to maintain control over the air quality permitting process – one which the EPA has essentially okayed for 16 years, and one which has met the air quality standards set by the federal government.
But Texas didn’t do it just how the Obama EPA wants it done.
I love how Texas AG Greg Abbott started the letter to EPA administrator Jackson and the regional guy:
“In order to deter challenges to your plan for centralized control of industrial development through the issuance of permits for greenhouse gases, you have called upon each state to declare its allegiance to the Environmental Protection Agency's recently enacted greenhouse gas regulations - regulations that are plainly contrary to Unites States laws…To encourage acquiescence with your unsupported findings you threaten to usurp state enforcement authority and to federalize the permitting program of any state that fails to pledge their fealty to the Environmental Protection Agency.”
Then the letter gets serious…
I love Texas!!! Our leaders wear boots and have balls!
"On behalf of the State of Texas, we write to inform you that Texas has neither the authority nor the intention of interpreting, ignoring, or amending its laws in order to compel the permitting of greenhouse gas emissions."
Full letter: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35298358/Texas2EPA-Letter-Aug-2-2010
-- Peggy Venable
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