This has to be a first.

Could it be Texas is developing a conscience. Really? There is hope for the world.

By Greg Botelho, CNN

updated 6:17 PM EDT, Fri May 17, 2013

(CNN) -- Texas on Friday (click here) became the latest state to sue BP, Halliburton and others tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, alleging the parties "engaged in willful and wanton misconduct" and seeking penalties and damages "to the fullest extent allowed by law."

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, more than three years after one of the worst oil spills in American history. Listed defendants include Transocean, Halliburton and Anadarko, in addition to BP America....