Cities Banning Together to Fight Planned Coal-fired Power Plants in TX.

[Dover]

Cities willing to battle TXU over plants

03:25 PM CDT on Thursday, August 31, 2006

By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News


HOUSTON — A coalition of Texas cities, led by Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Houston Mayor Bill White, say they're prepared to battle TXU Corp. if the electric utility doesn't alter plans to build coal-fired power plants throughout Texas.

Such plants, the mayors say, will cause the state's already dirty air to become even filthier, and they called on TXU to consider different power generation options.

Miller described TXU's plan as a "giant step in the wrong direction" that would prevent Texas from ever complying with federal mandates to clean its air...cont'd

http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/083106kvuecitiestxu-cl.540e5c5f.html

[CAG]

1. Those dang libruls, **cough, cough**, why don't they leave **cough**

these poor multibillion dollar corporations **cough,cough** do what they need to do!
:sarcasm: