The fall hunting season is just around the corner for most Texans. Even though it is hot this summer, hunter’s dreams are cooled with refreshing thoughts of dove, deer, duck and quail. For the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is open season already in Texas.
The Attorney General of Texas’ press release details how the Lone Star State developed a permitting system that has been in place since the first term of the Clinton administration, and how the Obama EPA shot it down even as new rules were posted which attempted to address the EPA’s concerns.
Folks, we must have good, sound environmental practices and policies, but we need transparent, open and STABLE regulatory approaches. We can have clean air and jobs for our citizens all at the same time. This is real. Just think of the lost jobs in the Gulf with the six month drilling moratorium the president issued (which was overturned by the courts). Two huge drilling rigs left our shores and went overseas where they were wanted…and jobs for our citizens went with them.
Let’s hope our court system will put some hunting limits on the EPA. We don’t want our jobs being indiscriminately gunned down.
