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Stepping up: Coal Power is Poison is stepping up their ad campaign against the controversial coal-fired power plant near Texarkana.  The group will start running the above advertisement in the Democrat-Gazette starting tomorrow morning.  

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The Frac Act: The Arkansas Conservation Alliance joins a laundry list of national groups in support of the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act.  Check out the YouTube video above, and a press release here, describing how chemicals from drilling waste led to a large scale fish-kill in a creek in Pennsylvania.  If you think this stuff isn’t going on in this state, you’re dillusional.

Just for Kicks: A comic by John Hart [via Switchboard]. 

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