While Tea Partiers like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky are challenging Washington’s politics-as-usual on the campaign trail, Greg Abbot, Mike Cox and Ken Cuccinelli are opening a crucially important second front against the federal Leviathan in the courts.

Abbot has filed two suits in six weeks against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in defense of an innovative Texas anti-emissions program for certain older industrial operations. Federal law caps emissions by source within such 122 covered facilities in Texas.

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