The debate over new power plants in Texas is based on false premises. Environmentalists and their allies in the media have created the mistaken impression that building new coal-fired power plants necessarily means more air pollution. Texans deserve an energy policy based on air quality realities, rather than on environmentalists’ anti-consumer fear-mongering.
Air Quality
The Issue Few Americans know that air quality in America has improved dramatically over the past 50 years. Aggregate emissions of the six criteria pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act have fallen 77% since 1970, and the U.S. has some of the lowest levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the world All but...