Texas Panel Delays Coal-Fired Plant. By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 15, 2008. "A state panel has put the brakes on a new [800-megawatt] coal-fired power plant in North Texas, ordering NRG Energy to first analyze technologies intended to reduce emissions of toxic mercury and other hazardous pollutants... Environmentalists say those emissions affect North Texas. A coalition of environmental groups [including the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense and the citizens group, Robertson County's Our Land, Our Lives] and residents challenged the state's approval last year of a permit allowing NRG to build the plant. A panel of state administrative law judges agreed last week to place the application on indefinite hold until the mercury issue is resolved. David Knox, an NRG spokesman, said the decision is a minor setback. 'We are moving forward,' he said. 'We are working to make this [proposed] plant the cleanest possible.'"
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