Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1How Far Can Texas Democrats Take the Quorum Break?

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1Moments From the Reopening of Balmorhea Pool

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5An Irreversible Sentence

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5The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

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6Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents

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6Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

Articles tagged: coal-fired power plants

Global carbon emissions. Embargoed to 0001 Wednesday December 04 File photo dated 10/01/07 of a coal fired power plant. Global carbon emissions have risen again this year - but more slowly than in the past two years, researchers have said. Issue date: Wednesday December 4, 2019. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are projected to be up 0.6% in 2019, to reach almost 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), University of Exeter and the Global Carbon Project said. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Carbon. Photo credit should read: John Giles/PA Wire URN:48771031 (Press Association via AP Images)

by Christopher Collins

With Coal Plants Offline, the Air in Central and East Texas Has Cleared

After three plants shut down in late 2017, legal air pollution in Texas fell by 150,000 tons.

Fri, Feb 14, 2020 |

Residents in rural parts of East and Central Texas can breathe a little easier. State data shows that the closure of three coal-burning power plants in late 201...Read More

March 29, 2006 - U.S. - Dallas-based TXU, plans to build 11 new coal plants like the Big Brown coal mine and power plant in Freestone County northeast of Fairfield, Texas, March 29, 2006. (Tom Fox/Dallas Morning News/TNS) (Credit Image: � Tom Fox/TNS/ZUMAPRESS.com)

by Naveena Sadasivam

Report: Seven Texas Coal Plants Could Close in Coming Years

Some plants are likely to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Public Citizen says.

Mon, Sep 12, 2016 |

The plants will struggle to turn a profit due to low natural gas prices and increasing competition and regulations, according to a new report....Read More

July 2016 feature coal plant L

by Gary Borders

Powering Down

The owner of Texas’ biggest fleet of coal-fired power plants is trying to wiggle out of paying its property taxes.

Mon, Jul 25, 2016 |

The owner of Texas’ biggest fleet of coal-fired power plants is trying to wiggle out of paying its property taxes....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Obama EPA Proposes Major Cuts to Carbon Pollution

Tue, Jun 3, 2014 |

Although the EPA's Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants goes to great lengths to describe the flexibility and generous timeline...Read More

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