Today is yet another day I’m proud to be a Texan. While I’m a strong supporter of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in the upcoming primary, her main opponent – current Governor Rick Perry – certainly got points in my book today when he yet again stood against Washington.

Now, this post has nothing to do with the election from this point forward, promise. It’s about butchering American prosperity for failed environmental regulation. Interested now?

Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last year, you’ve probably seen the AGW/climate change tear-fest take some major hits. At the end of the day, the simple fact is that Climategate showed the world what climate change “experts” have been up to.

Even just yesterday Professor Phil Jones, director of University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (the place where Climategate’s emails are from) and the individual in charge of two key datasets that the IPCC relies on, admitted that “there has been no ’statistically significant’ rise in temperatures since 1995″ – an admission he wouldn’t have made if not under recent scrutiny. Want to see more fallout from Climategate? Just use Google – it’s eerily funny.

Just how much of an impact Climategate had on policy is still to be seen, but if the complete failure of Copenhagen is any sign, Climategate might have saved the world from financial ruin (OK, so maybe increased financial ruin since things weren’t that great already).

Today, Texas – with Perry’s support – filed a suit to challenge regulation of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by the government. Now, Texas isn’t alone – there are several national industry groups that filed as well – but it is important to note its suit because of the connotations. While environmentalists could claim industry groups are filing suits for corporate reasons, an entire state filing shows that there is a more significant issue here: the prosperity of Americans. Cap-and-trade – or most likely any form of greenhouse gas regulation – would have no impact on CO2 levels without significant work by other nations who have already said they won’t change.

Why should Americans suffer knowing full well there would be no benefit to the Earth? They shouldn’t, and Texas has stepped forward to let Washington know. Maybe now people will actually care the next time Perry says we’re going to secede.