Say No to White Stallion Coal Plant

"...if Matagorda County gets a dirty, fish-killing, air-contaminating, groundwater-polluting coal-fired power plant? Because in order for the owners, who..."

July 21, 2011 Postmarks

Should AE Retire Fayette Coal Plant ... This Decade?

"...to plans that have been proposed to retire the plant sooner rather than later. Note: Supporters of retiring Fayette..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Dirty Coal Update: Fast-Tracking Slowed Down

Travis Co. district judge issues temporary injunction instructing state administrative hearings judges to ignore Perry’s 2005 executive order fast-tracking coal-plant permitting as hearings were set to begin Wednesday on six TXU plants.

"...Opponents of dirty coal rejoiced Tuesday evening when a Travis Co. district judge..."

Feb. 21, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Austin Energy's Coal Considerations Smoked Out?

Council to be asked to consider authorizing city manager to negotiate land agreement for future "clean coal" plant

"...Austin Energy is considering using so-called clean coal to meet the city's future power needs. The utility's..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Coal Hard Reality

Still cloudy over TXU

"...of CO2 emissions – such as the 11 pulverized coal plants currently proposed in Texas, by TXU Energy and..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

AE's Coal Conundrum

Energy planners and the fight over Fayette

"...that we do need to ultimately close down those coal-fired power plants, but first we need to build the..."

Nov. 20, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Power Plant Pollution Battle Still On

TXU's Oak Grove lignite-burning facility gets state approval.

"...of evil in Texas' war over 19 proposed pulverized coal power plants, Dallas-based utility TXU has been feverishly advertising..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Thinking Beyond Coal

Coal mines are mucking up the environment, from the Appalachian mountains to the outskirts of Austin

"...and scrape of a 110-ton bucket used to carve coal from the Earth jolts Billie Woods out of her..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

New Pollution Rules for Coal-Crazed Texas

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality takes up two federal EPA air quality measures to hopefully reduce mercury and carbon dioxide pollution

"...toward ending Texas' reign as the nation's No. 1 power-plant emitter of toxic mercury and heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution,..."

March 10, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

TXU Still Eyeing Clean Coal

Company continues clinging to previous dirty plans.

"...TXU Corporation is now planning to build two coal-gasification or so-called "clean-coal" plants in Texas. The Dallas-based utility..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Coal War Update

Charles "Doc" Anderson launches legislative attack against proposed coal-fired power plants, efficiency practices report, and more

"...In this dispatch from the trenches of the coal wars, we'll see a Republican who's crossed party lines..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Texas Coal Rush Update

Planned coal power plants loom large, get political

"...they say is a fast-approaching energy shortage: 18 new coal-burning power plants. Critics note these are not the oft-touted..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Coal's Body Count

"...will be caused by toxic pollution from the 19 coal-fired power plants proposed for construction statewide, according to a..."

Dec. 1, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Coal Goes to Court

Lawsuits are flying to stop dirty power plants

"...looking on in shock and awe as Texas' planned coal craze progresses, two high-profile court cases filed by a..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Dirty-Coal Reversal

TXU agrees to buy-out, announces it will abandon plans for eight of its proposed coal-fired plants

"...in Texas' war over the construction of 17 new coal-fired power plants, TXU, the energy giant with 11 controversial..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

MIT Professor Berzin's New Coal-Related Technology

"...Dear Editor, Given the controversy surrounding new coal plants in Texas, readers might be interested in the..."

July 5, 2006 Postmarks

Nuclear, Coal, & Wind in Texas

"...With seven nuclear plants proposed in Texas, local environmental groups are turning to..."

Aug. 8, 2007 Columns Post

Capitalists, Conservationists Say No to Dirty Coal

Showdown taking shape over plans to build 16 old-style coal-fired power plants, which threaten to push Austin's marginal air quality into the red

"...utilities, led by Dallas-based TXU, to build 16 old-style, coal-fired power plants, which threaten to push Austin's marginal air..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Coal Hard Cash

Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.

"...plus a whole lot more. Enough, according to a coalition of farmers, ranchers, environmentalists, and suburban professionals who commute..."

Sept. 3, 1999 News Feature

Then There's This: Hard, Coal Reality

Breaking up with Fayette Power is hard to do, AE officials say

"...The long road to moving "Austin Beyond Coal," as the Sierra Club slogan goes, just got longer..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith

Three-Eyed Fish Alert! Texas No. 1 in Power Plant, Mercury Emissions

Toxin linked to birth defects

"...that will permit drastically more mercury pollution from power plants, putting one in six pregnant women in the U.S...."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Texas Gets Coal Shoulder for the Health of It

New EPA standards crack down on sulfur dioxide emissions

"...the highest SO2 levels – including Texans living near coal-fired power plants, petroleum refineries, diesel exhaust, and other sources...."

June 11, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Coal News: Sierra Club Still Watching TXU, Ranks of Greenhouse-Gas Reduction Accord Grow, and Coal-Fired Power Plant Investments Protested

"...its commitment to cancel applications to build eight new coal-fired power plants – made as part of its private-equity..."

Nov. 21, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Battling the Toxicity of Coal-Burning Power Plants

'Clear Skies' gets shot down, and Legislators try to cut the crud in Texas

"...opposed Clear Skies because it would extend deadlines for plants to meet clean-up targets until 2018; eliminate New Source..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Bush's Xmas Stocking: Burning Coal?

New state and federal regulations threaten the Clean Air Act

"...Act's New Source Review rules, which require any power plant seeking to significantly upgrade or repair its facilities to..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Amount of Fayette Power Plant's Ozone Pollutants May Have Been Overstated

"...figures for ozone-forming pollutant emissions from the Fayette power plant in his recent Postmark ["Postmarks," Dec. 12]. It appears..."

Dec. 16, 2003 Postmarks

AE Defends Biomass Plant

Biomass likely to go forward despite some public opposition

"...power (beginning in 2012) from its planned 100-megawatt biomass plant fueled with waste wood and logging debris. Council postponed..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

If We Plant It, They Will Come

Monarch butterflies have a simple request

"...work to be done. With monarch migration and fall planting time upon us, the time for action is now...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Fayette, Don't Spray It

Enviros target LCRA with potential lawsuit over Clean Air Act violations

"...alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at the coal-powered Fayette Power Project in La Grange. The LCRA's July..."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Dirty Days Ahead?

TCEQ approves permit for TXU Oak Grove coal power plant in Robertson County, about 100 miles from Austin

"...the last TXU post, more details on their latest plant: The mammoth Oak Grove plant – really two plants..."

June 14, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

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