DALLAS (AP) _ Activists have gathered in Dallas to protest coal-fired power plants in Texas.
Representatives of environmental, religious and medical groups say they delivered more than 2,000 comments to the Environmental Protection Agency's Dallas office on Thursday, calling for a halt to coal plant construction in Texas.
With 17 coal-fired power plants and another 12 are planned, Texas has more than any other state. The Sierra Club and other groups asked the EPA to review the permits of the existing plants and halt construction on the others.
The groups have long opposed the plants, which are among the top polluters in Texas.
The protest comes the same week the EPA proposed new rules limiting sulfur dioxide emissions.
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