New Mexico groups are allowed to challenge Texas power plant

 El Paso Electric’s Newman 6 project to go before judge

 

A judge rules that environmentalists and a New Mexico citizens’ group can move ahead with their challenge to a proposed natural gas plant just over the Texas border.

The ruling by an administrative law judge said the Sierra Club and a citizen group from Chaparral, New Mexico can challenge the pending approval of a Texas permit for El Paso Electric’s proposed gas plant.

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