Texas Needs EPA Help To Enforce Its Environmental Laws, Groups Say

Claiming Texas has made it unlawfully burdensome for people to challenge industry polluters, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Caddo Lake Institute formally asked the federal government to take over permitting responsibilities involving air emissions and water discharges in the state. The groups say that recent Texas laws make the state non-compliant with federal standards...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/13/3739209/epa-called-to-act-in-texas/