TXU Coal Plant Controversy Hitting Hollywood, Sheryl Crow and movie producer Laurie David,
TXU Coal Plant Controversy Hitting Hollywood Jack Fink
(CBS 11 News) DALLAS The fight against TXU's proposed coal-fired plants in Texas is about to hit Hollywood.
Rock star Sheryl Crow and movie producer Laurie David, who helped work on Al Gore's Oscar nominated documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," are teaming up for a two-week bus tour across North Texas and the Gulf states. The tour is designed to fight global warming and save the environment.
David is the brain child behind the tour. "She's going to play some songs and I'm going to talk about global warming," she said, "and we're really going to try to kick up some dust on this issue on our college campuses."
The tour hopes to stop TXU's controversial plan to build 11 coal-fired power plants across the state of Texas. Governor Rick Perry's plan to fast-track the coal plants has been attacked by environmentalists and a coalition of cities.
TXU has promised to cut emissions by 20 percent, but David doesn't buy it. "To allow a company, knowing everything we know about this problem, to fast-track and build dirty plants... it's unacceptable. It's immoral," David said. TXU insists that the newly proposed plants, including the one that will be built in Fannin County, are cleaner than the existing ones.
A spokesperson for TXU said, "Unfortunately, coal has gotten a bad reputation over the years. These units will be 80 percent cleaner than any U.S. coal plants. This is state of the art technology we're using."
David said, "If people understood what was happening, they would reject it soundly." She is hoping that state administrative judges will reject the TXU coal plants as well.
The planned two-week bus tour will start on April 9 at SMU in Dallas.
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(CBS 11 News) DALLAS The fight against TXU's proposed coal-fired plants in Texas is about to hit Hollywood.
Rock star Sheryl Crow and movie producer Laurie David, who helped work on Al Gore's Oscar nominated documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," are teaming up for a two-week bus tour across North Texas and the Gulf states. The tour is designed to fight global warming and save the environment.
David is the brain child behind the tour. "She's going to play some songs and I'm going to talk about global warming," she said, "and we're really going to try to kick up some dust on this issue on our college campuses."
The tour hopes to stop TXU's controversial plan to build 11 coal-fired power plants across the state of Texas. Governor Rick Perry's plan to fast-track the coal plants has been attacked by environmentalists and a coalition of cities.
TXU has promised to cut emissions by 20 percent, but David doesn't buy it. "To allow a company, knowing everything we know about this problem, to fast-track and build dirty plants... it's unacceptable. It's immoral," David said. TXU insists that the newly proposed plants, including the one that will be built in Fannin County, are cleaner than the existing ones.
A spokesperson for TXU said, "Unfortunately, coal has gotten a bad reputation over the years. These units will be 80 percent cleaner than any U.S. coal plants. This is state of the art technology we're using."
David said, "If people understood what was happening, they would reject it soundly." She is hoping that state administrative judges will reject the TXU coal plants as well.
The planned two-week bus tour will start on April 9 at SMU in Dallas.
(© MMVII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights
http://cbs11tv.com/local/local_story_026211907.html
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