Study: Coal plants would foul Dallas-Forth Worth air

Pollution created by new power plants planned for East and Central Texas will harm Dallas-Fort Worth’s air quality and probably put Waco and Austin in violation of federal clean-air laws for the first time.

Those were the conclusions in a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.


The study, released Friday, is billed by power plant opponents as the most comprehensive analysis yet of the pollution that would be created by building as many as 16 new power plants.

It’s also the first to demonstrate that Waco and Austin, and even the Tyler-Longview area 150 miles southeast of Fort Worth, could be dramatically affected by the power plants’ pollution.

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