[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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