EPA’s Regulatory Barrage and the Lone Star State

December 6, 2010

Mario Loyola

The Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White

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.

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