Today’s EPA is expanding its regulation of economic activity at all levels and supplanting long-held state authorities with breathtaking speed. Texas is setting a roadmap for how other state can combat the federal EPA to preserve state sovereignty and economic growth, as Kathleen White and Mario Loyola explain in the lead story in the new issue of Inside Alec.
Running Dry: South Texas’ Water Crisis
Farmers slowly dig up their losses and face the unsettling reality that their parched dams, once a reliable water supply for irrigation, will not be replenished. These hardworking, multi-generational Texas farmers are no strangers to the ebbs and flows of the seasons. But when a crop that the Rio Grande Valley has depended on for...