The Sierra Club says the Obama administration is moving to regulate CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants. This, the club says, could have big implications for new plants, including the one under construction in Hempstead County.

This reminds me that I meant to link an article in Sunday’s NY Times that illustrates how far Arkansas officialdom is behind the times in their love of greenhouse gas-spewing power plants.

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UPDATE: AES cancelled a coal plant in Oklahoma today, one of dozens scrapped in recent months because of pollution concerns. Only in Arkansas are poisons tolerated.

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