{"id":319564,"date":"2014-11-25T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=319564"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:03:11","slug":"coal-fired-plant-proposal-could-affect-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=319564","title":{"rendered":"Coal-Fired Plant Proposal Could Affect East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/EPA-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/EPA-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"EPA Logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"111\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-319536\" \/><\/a>FORT WORTH &#8212; Coal-fired plant operators in Texas could be writing some big checks, and East Texas could see the results.   Under a federal proposal, the operators of the eight biggest such plants would spend two billion dollars to retrofit 15 units to reduce air pollution. Tom &#8220;Smitty&#8221; Smith with Public Citizen welcomes this.  Smith says, &#8220;It will improve our public health, and many of the sort of hazy days that now cloud our skies over the Dallas-Fort Worth or Tyler area will come to an end.&#8221;  He says it would make much more sense to scrap the old coal plants and go with another form of energy like natural gas or renewables. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH &#8212; Coal-fired plant operators in Texas could be writing some big checks, and East Texas could see the results. Under a federal proposal, the operators of the eight biggest such plants would spend two billion dollars to retrofit 15 units to reduce air pollution. Tom &#8220;Smitty&#8221; Smith with Public Citizen welcomes this. Smith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=319564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coal-Fired Plant Proposal Could Affect East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 10:39:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319565,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319564\/revisions\/319565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}