Gov. Perry Accepts Recommendations from the Texas Advisory Panel on Federal Environmental Regulation

Good morning and thank you all for being here today to discuss a significant potential threat to Texas, one that could run the nation’s strongest economy off the rails and into the ditch.

Up here with me today are the members of the Texas Advisory Panel on Federal Environmental Regulations, a group I created at the beginning of this month to get a handle on some regulations that are taking shape at the federal level. I’ll introduce them to you here in a minute, but I’d like to start by providing an overview of where we stand as a state and discuss a serious conflict that is brewing with Washington DC.

As you well know, Texas is the nation’s energy leader. We produce more fossil fuels than anyone else, we refine more gasoline than anyone else, and we produce the chemicals that keep businesses moving. The most important byproduct of that activity is can be summed up in three words: jobs for Texans.