The lawsuit, led by Texas, goes after an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation implementing the fee. The suit says the EPA rule “exceeds the agency’s statutory authority and ...

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The city’s environmental services franchise fee charged on garbage collection ... who served on the City Council in the early 1990s and then in the Texas House of Representatives from 1995 ...

CAN is urging support for environmental stewardship fee legislation, which can fortify natural resource protection as well as our ability to rebound after ever increasing threats of hurricanes ...