[PCA] NEWS: Farmers, pecan growers say coal plant kills plants

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Dec 29 08:41:08 CST 2010


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101228/ap_on_re_us/us_vegetative_wasteland

Farmers, pecan growers say coal plant kills plants
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press
Tue Dec 28, 5:44 pm ET

BASTROP, Texas -- Along a stretch of Highway 21, in a pastoral, hilly 
region of Texas, is a vegetative wasteland. Trees are barren, or covered 
in gray, dying foliage and peeling bark. Fallen, dead limbs litter the 
ground where pecan growers and ranchers have watched trees die slow, 
agonizing deaths.

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