claim: "rick perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. fortunately, a court stopped him."
author: bill white
evidence_1: luminant, texas' largest power plant operator, said it will fire the workers and ...  commission on environmental quality, in lambasting the epa rule changes. ......  front-runner rick perry slammed epa as a “rogue agency” with an “activist mind- set. ..... cost up to $11 billion annually through 2013 (mostly for the installation of  ...
evidence_2: "rick perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which  degrade air quality and would cost billions. fortunately, a court stopped him.".
evidence_3: in an overhaul of air pollution regulations, the epa said it found ways to ... epa  was under a court-ordered deadline to release a final regulation this .... the epa  said the move would cost companies $1.8 billion to ...... coal-fired power plants  without updated equipment to capture pollutants are a ...... continue to deteriorate .
evidence_4: attempt ... air ... track ... stop .... fast ... generation ..... coal ... wound ......  unnecessary ..... degradation ..... billion ..... fortunately ...... lower-cost ... cost- benefit .... out-of-court ..... fire-control ... higher-quality ..... ric ..... perry ...... poor- quality ...
evidence_5: a 2013 food & water watch analysis estimated these costs at $12 to $50 per  acre. ..... petrochemical booster rick perry rides to the rescue of the fracking  industry ..... dominion's coal- and fracked gas-fired power plants emit dangerous  air ...... to be the one little word that we leveraged legally to stop them in their  tracks.