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Red River air rivalry has Oklahoma and Texas battling over air quality and coal plants
Posted by New Sok: Michael Baker on December 25th, 2010
New Sok: Red River air rivalry has Oklahoma and Texas battling over air quality and coal plants
The approval of about a dozen new coal-fired power plants in Texas has Oklahoma officials and environmental groups worried about the effects on the Sooner State's air quality.
This Oklahoma-Texas rivalry -- with a bit of Nebraska mixed in -- has to do with what blows across the Red River.
Texas environmental regulators earlier this month awarded air permits to an Omaha, Neb., developer of a cleaner coal-fired...