Coal-fired power plant in Ark. to be operating in 2010

OSCEOLA, Ark.

The 665-megawatt unit would generate power for utilities in eight states from Texas to Illinois. A proposed second unit would boost the output to 1,330 megawatts.

But environmentalists say the plant will be a major new source of pollution.

“If they build all 1,300 megawatts, it will be one of the biggest new sources of global-warming pollution in the U.S. in the last 30 years,” says Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club’s national coal campaign.

Houston Chronicle