Environmental scientists and chem-ists engaged in environmental in-vestigation work in Texas have fallen victim to an active,well-organized,and well-funded lobby effort by ge-ologists that has essentially cornered all environmental assessment work in Texas for those from a geology,geophysics,or soil science academic background.The 2003 Texas Geosci-ence Practice Act (Texas Occupations Code,Title 6,Chapter 1002;Texas An-notated Code 22,Part 39,Chapters 850-851)is significantly affecting en-vironmental assessment work in Tex-as because of its broad definition of "geoscience",which includes "inves-tigation of the earth's environment".
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