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See the Resources we have assembled here under several tabs. News outlets are paying attention to energy news in Texas! June 2025 media has been especially focused on the proposed SLE natural gas-fired power plant project and the growing number of similar projects like it that are being developed
Featured 2025 Resources
Inside Climate News
Travis Brown and Hugh Brown, no relation, stand by a sign marking the site of a proposed 1,200 megawatt gas-fired power plant in their tiny town of Blue. Pictured May 7, 2025. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News
By Dylan Baddour,
June 11, 2025
New research reveals a massive planned expansion of gas-fired electrical generation to power artificial intelligence and other heavy industries
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And see this YouTube KXAN interview with Dylan, as well as his article on central Texas groundwater issues.
We appreciate Dylan's work!
Environmental Integrity Project - Report: A Pollution Footprint the Size of Texas, June 11, 2025
To assist reviewing the article, and this related Environmental Integrity Project report, first see the June 11, 2025 EIP report media release.
All three are available for download in "Summer 2025 Resources" below.
*Dylan Baddour and Arcelia Martin co-authored another article for Inside Climate News earlier in June.
The article, which also featured MTGP, was reprinted by the Texas Tribune:
Data Centers are building their own gas plants.
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In addition to all of our work to challenge the SLE air permits at TCEQ, MTGP works hard to get media attention.
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Locally, MTGP strives to keep the record straight:
Locally, MTGP strives to keep the record straight:
Here's an excerpt from our May 26, 2025 self-explanatory local press release:
‘Move the Gas Plant’ Challenges Credibility
Of Claims by “Pro-Gas Plant Group”
LEXINGTON, TEXAS – Opponents of a proposed natural gas power plant in Lee County have challenged
the credibility of a group that claims to represent supporters of the proposed plant.
An article in the May 22 edition of the Giddings Times & News cited what it called “a slew” of
comments of support for the gas plant that were filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality (TCEQ).
The article named a group called
“Allies of Sandow Lakes Energy” as the force behind those letters of support.
Travis Brown, a Blue resident and spokesman for the Move the Gas Plant group, said he had never heard of the “Allies of Sandow Lakes Energy” before reading the Times & News article...
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