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Austin’s Fayette coal-fired power plant sued

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged austin texas, clean air act, fayette power project, lower colorado river authority, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on March 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »

LCRA’s Fayette Power Project is under legal attack by three anti-pollution groups who filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the coal-fired power plant located near La Grange, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. The lawsuit was filed by the Environmental Integrity Project, Environment Texas and Texas Campaign for the Environment. Claiming LCRA’s Fayette Power Project has [...]

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Railroad Commission examiners say Range Resources not responsible for well contamination

Posted in Air Quality on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to hearing examiners for the Texas Railroad Commission, Range Resources was not responsible for contaminating two residential drinking water wells in Parker County. The Fort Worth company was accused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in December of allowing methane and other substances from its Barnett Shale hydraulic fracking operations into the wells. But the [...]

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Are Barnett Shale residents the lab rats in the fracking debate?

Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, tagged Barnett shale, Fort Worth Texas, fracking, public citizen texas, Tarrant County Texas, Texas on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Are desperate school boards having to make decisions about the fiscal health of their districts now vs the long-term health of their charges in the future? Mike Norman, the editorial director of the Star-Telegram/Arlington and Northeast Tarrant County, writes about the precarious lab rat position of citizens in the Barnett Shale. Click here to read his [...]

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