Agreement to trap CO2 wins green support for coal plant

Randy Lee Loftis writes: An agreement reached Monday between a major environmental group and a power company clears some of the opposition to a new West Texas coal plant that promises to capture 85 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions.

If Nebraska-based Tenaska's plan comes through, its new Trailblazer Energy Center near Sweetwater would be among the first big commercial-scale coal plants in the U.S. to slash the amount of CO{-2} reaching the atmosphere.

In exchange for Tenaska's pledge to cut CO{-2} and reduce potential water use, the Environmental Defense Fund agreed to withdraw from a Texas permit hearing that seeks to block the 600-megawatt plant.
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