Texas Democratic Party: Moving Texas Forward

The battle between Texas pollution regulators and the Environmental Protection Agency grows more contentious and complex by the day. Gov. Rick Perry accused the EPA on Wednesday of “seek[ing] to destroy Texas’s successful clean air program and threaten tens of thousands of good Texas jobs in the process.” Environmentalists fired back, in their own news conference, threatening to sue the EPA if the agency doesn’t make the state shape up. (more…)

While states ranging from Mississippi and Florida to New York and Washington vie for $3.4 billion in a second round of federal Race to the Top educational funds, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has once again put politics over the education of Lone Star children by refusing to seek the grant money. (more…)