Ted Hadzi-Antich is a senior attorney with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Ted has served for 40 years as a lawyer in a variety of capacities in federal and state government, private practice, law teaching, in-house corporate counselling, and public interest advocacy.
GE’s new Haliade-X offshore wind turbine is enormous—each blade is longer than a football field. It’s nearly three football fields in height. Its imprint on the seabed is likewise gigantic, and not merely because of the concrete base that anchors it. Miles and miles of transmission lines must be buried then covered over in debris....
Thousands of ranchers, farmers, trucking companies and other small businesses would be hit hard if the Clean Water Act is expanded to include groundwater discharges, as the Ninth Circuit recently held that it should in the case of County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. For example, many family farming operations in...
The recent month-long government shutdown was not the main thing prohibiting public access to our national forests. Not by a long shot. Amy Granat is an avid outdoorswoman. She also has cancer and an autoimmune disease requiring her to undergo chemotherapy that caused infections in her legs and limited her ability to walk. She found a...
The dusky gopher frog is a critter that can be found in certain areas of Mississippi — and nowhere else. Yet the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to “protect” the dusky gopher frog by using the Endangered Species Act to designate a 1,500-acre tract of private forestry land in Louisiana as “critical habitat necessary...
John Gallagher grew up on construction sites. In 1954, his father, a buyer for a Chicago fruit market, and his uncle, a bricklayer, began building modest homes part-time, responding to the region’s post-war housing crunch. “I was at the job sites at six years old, and on my 10th birthday, I started working in the...
The Supreme Court will hear its first oral argument during the October 2018-2019 term in the case of Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which involves a smorgasbord of issues focusing on whether a federal government agency has unbridled discretion to make land use decisions that adversely impact landowners throughout the nation. If newly...
With supine deference to CARB’s wishes, EPA violated the Clean Air Act by approving the regulation without assessing independently whether California’s residents require emissions controls that far surpass in scope and stringency any regulatory standards applicable anywhere else in the nation.
General Land Office of the State of Texas v. U.S. Department of the Interior provides the best opportunity for the nation, through the judicial process, to recognize that our complex world requires more than dogmatic adherence to the protection of a single species regardless of the societal impacts.
States outside California will also suffer because California is the largest single marketplace in the nation, and out-of-state firms seeking to continue doing business in the state will be required to comply with the strict emissions limitations.
This will likely be one of the most momentous cases ever to be decided by any federal court.