The Mini-Me that Runs Texas’ Environmental Agency

Mother Jones does a profile on Bryan Shaw, the often overlooked Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. An ideological twin of Rick Perry that runs the state agency charged with enforcing every federal environmental law on the book, Shaw is the equivalent of the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Department in Mississippi, circa 1960. Reading this goes a long way towards understanding why the TCEQ is the way it is right now.