Trees are timber — a natural resource that belongs to private property owners in the same way as a backyard garden. It would be absurd to require a government permit to harvest your peppers and potatoes — yet many Texas cities strictly regulate trees on your land.
The purpose of the EPA is to safeguard the environment and individuals' health. However, to do so there must be a standardized process and unfettered public access to evidence used in creating regulation.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) decision to list the Pacific Bearded Seal as an endangered species. The seal is not currently threatened, but according to the NMFS, it might be threatened in 2095, if current global warming climate-models hold true—a highly unlikely proposition, given the historical unreliability of such models
"The impacts at the consumer level threaten the ability of PEC customers — most rural and many poor — to continue to afford electricity."
Public money should be spent only for public purposes and not for the primary benefit of a private business or organization. Austin lawmakers should know that. And Austin taxpayers deserve that.
One does not forfeit their privacy simply by choosing to stay as a guest in a short-term rental.
Texas is still the special place Mbogo experienced when he arrived, standing as a bastion for freedom in the midst of increasing government encroachment out of Washington. But the fact that we allow cities to shut down businesses and reduce property values without compensation proves we have some work to do.
This month, 67 percent of likely United States voters answered 'wrong track' when asked the simple question: 'Do you think the country is heading in the right direction or on the wrong track?'
Presently, nearly 50 percent of reported temperature data is not taken from an actual measurement.
If the federal government can claim land belonging to people like Aderholt and the Pattons as public property without due process or lawful basis, then private property can no longer be considered a right for any Texan.
The law's ultimate goal is to 'recover' species so they no longer need protection under the ESA.
Texans can hope that the court this time around will require public education to efficiently deliver our children to graduation without again running out of fuel.