Texas sues federal government one more time over coal rule
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Texas Republicans suggested hopefully that their years-long practice of suing the federal government would finally be over.
Trump, who is taking office this week, has vowed to repeal many of the environmental and other regulations Texas has challenged in court.
But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday announced he, along with 13 other mostly Republican-led states, would sue the federal government yet again to block a recently finalized federal rule limiting coal mining near waterways.
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement finalized the “Stream Protection Rule” in December, President Obama's last full month in office, “after an extensive and transparent public process that spanned multiple years.”
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/17/texas-sues-the-feds-more-more-time/
