And yet the state has had to fight the Environmental Protection Agency in court every step of the way and the state has won.

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In Texas, the birthplace of the shale-gas revolution, there is currently a stand-off between the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the state Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas production.

WSJ: Daniel Yergin on the Shale Gas Revolution: Stepping on the Gas

Oklahoma's new Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt has bolstered the cause by challenging the tax penalty provisions of the federal health care law, filing suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and joining a multi-state challenge to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

NPR: States' Rights Bills Surge In GOP States

The Environmental Protection Agency, together with other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, developed AIRNow.gov, offering the public daily Air Quality Index forecasts and real-time Air Quality Index conditions for over 300 cities across the country as well as links to detailed state and local air quality cites.

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Huge corporations can cope with the myriad rules issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and their state-level counterparts.

WSJ: Charles Murray: Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem

The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.

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The U.S. Supreme Court, ending its session with a bang, soundly rejected a lawsuit by state attorneys general that would have effectively regulated utility emissions of greenhouse gases outside of the Environmental Protection Agency.

FORBES: Supreme Court, On A Big Day, Rejects Global-Warming Suit