 In a letter to the EPA the Texas Attorney General and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality refused to "pledge their fealty to the Environmental Protection Agency". Yes folks, you read the language right. And there's more.
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. ... You have declared that EPA's decision ... renders such gases immediately "subject to regulation" ... simultaneously, however, you recognize that permitting greenhouse gases under the Act is "absurd" ...
In order to avoid the absurd results of EPA's own creation, you have developed a "tailoring rule" in which you have substituted your own judgement for Congress's ... the State of Texas does not believe that EPA's "suggested" approach comports with the rule of law. The United States and Texas Constitutions, United States and Texas statutes, and EPA and TCEQ rules all preclude ...
We start with the constitutional difficulties ... each of these objections to EPA's demand for a loyalty oath from the State of Texas would suffice to justify our refusal to make one. Indeed, it is an affront ..." |