Dallas Morning News: A proposal to shift permitting for emissions of greenhouse gases from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality won preliminary approval in the House, but lawmakers agreed to leave out climate change and global warming language.
Lawmakers voted for the measure 119-23. There didn`t seem to be much opposition to moving the permitting responsibility to the TCEQ, which Rep. Wayne Smith, R-Baytown said could handle the duties much quicker than the...