The Circuit Court, yesterday, dissolved the administrative stay previously granted to Texas on December 30, 2010 and denied the motion to stay. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a statement in response to the Circuit Court’s ruling in the greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation case: “The TCEQ is disappointed in this decision, but confident we will ultimately prevail in our insistence that the EPA must follow its own rules and federal law, and that environmental regulations must have some environmental benefit, and not just expand the power of the federal government.”
The case will continue and the Court has ordered the petitioners (EPA and State of Texas) to submit certain documents by the end of February.