By Ella Tyler Environmental activists from across the state will be meeting in Austin on February 11 and 12 to rally and lobby against issuing permits for proposed new coal-fired power plants under a fast-track procedure authorized by Texas governor Rick Perry in October 2005.
FORT BEND POWER PLANT PLANNED Houston Chronicle 1/25/07 A Houston company plans to build a major power plant in Fort Bend County that it says will run on an oil refining byproduct and produce low greenhouse gas emissions. BUSH SEEKS VAST, MANDATORY INCREASE IN ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND GREATER VEHICLE EFFICIENCY New York Times 1/24/07 Vowing to reduce the nation’s thirst…
By Ella Tyler Poet as diverse as Robert Frost and Ogden Nash, Pablo Neruda and Shel Silverstein, have all written poems about trees, but Joyce Kilmer’s heartfelt rhyme is familiar to every schoolchild: “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.â€