About 70 protesters denounced Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to speed approval for coal-burning power plants at a Capitol rally Friday, trying to push the issue into the governor’s re-election race.
Democrat Chris Bell told the crowd that the state deserves a governor who will not mortgage its future health “to benefit a few professional polluters who [...]

Texas Independent Candidate for Governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn said Monday she will change the state’s permitting process in order to fight air pollution and announced her opposition to “dirty” coal-fired power plants that Gov. Rick Perry ordered fast-tracked through the permitting system.
“We first need to look to clean burning natural gas, wind energy, other renewables [...]

Independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn objected to Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to speed permits for 11 coal-fired plants and called today for stricter rules to fight pollution.
Strayhorn, the state comptroller, said she would order reviews of any permits issued for the plants and “slow the process to rewrite new rules that ensure clean [...]