Clean Air Fund Suspends NG Project Funding

Submitted by don on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 4:38pm.

The largest private clean air fund in Texas has suspended funding for natural gas projects. The Sue Pope Fund has also come out in support of a moratorium on new drilling.

 
For Immediate Release: 
February 4, 2010-  


(Dallas--) Stating that "it's become impossible to ignore the incongruity of the claims of a 'cleaner' natural gas industry, versus the facts on the ground in our own backyard," the grassroots directors of the largest private clean air fund in Texas have voted to suspend consideration of any further anti-pollution grants promoting the use of the increasingly controversial fuel and voiced support for a regional moratorium on new gas drilling.

It's believed to be the first time a Texas charity devoted to environmental goals has turned its back on an energy source that only a few years ago was being touted as a green alternative to coal and oil.


Read the Press Release from Jim Schermbeck of Downwinders at Risk here:

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