Archive for August 13th, 2008

August13

The fight against coal

By: Editor

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Our Texas office is taking the fight against new coal-fired power plants to neighboring Arkansas, where two proposed plants would impact the entire region. Besides adding to the problem of global warming, the pollution from coal-fired power plants is linked to numerous other health maladies, including learning defects in children. As part of the campaign against new coal plants, Public Citizen and other environmental groups recently hosted screenings of “Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars,” a documentary produced by Robert Redford that chronicles the fight against several new coal power plants in Texas. Public Citizen staffer Ryan Rittenhouse blogs about the Arkansas campaign on Texas Vox, the new blog written by our Texas office. Find out more about the fight against coal on our recently revamped Coal Block Web site.

Posted in: Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Texas1 comments

August13

Big corporate influence is in the bag

By: Editor

From Zoe Bridges-Curry @ The Watchdog Blog: When the welcome bags for the 2008 DNC national party convention were revealed earlier this month, bloggers took notice. Why? Because the bags are covered in corporate logos. As blogger and New York Times Bestselling author Glenn Greenwald points out, the national party is making little effort to conceal which companies are financing the convention, instead placing their logos unabashedly on the bag that every delegate and member of the media will receive when they arrive at the conventions. Continue Reading ยป

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