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Callers
express concern over coal-fired power plant
A new
coal-burning plant could bring hundreds of jobs to the natural state.
But one local group says it could also bring toxins and chemicals that
could be harmful to Arkansans health, and the environment....See more
At what
price? : Forum discusses environmental, economic impacts of gas drilling in
state See more in the
Northwest Arkansas times
SIERRA
CLUB AND LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS TO SPONSOR FORUM ON
GAS DRILLING IN ARKANSAS
Add
inspectors for shale pits, legislators told
Water monitoring looking inadequate, groups contend Water monitoring
looking inadequate, groups contend
LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality needs more
inspectors in the Fayetteville Shale, representatives of environmental and
sportsmen's groups told lawmakers Tuesday More
in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on line...
SIERRA CLUB DETAILS COAL OBJECTIONS
Group sees alternative to planned SWEPCO power plant
LITTLE
ROCK — About a dozen members of the Sierra Club of Arkansas voiced their
opposition Tuesday to a $1.4 billion, coal-fired power plant that
Southwestern Electric Power Co. plans to build by 2011 in Hempstead County. More...>