We have seen in the news recently that Grayson County's environment is threatened. Two recent events have made this clear. TXU's action to build a pulverized coal power plant near Savoy was one threat. The Rushing asphalt plants in Sherman and the proposed plant in Pottsboro are another threat. Thank goodness that the first threat has subsided. The threat from the asphalt plants has not!

It is hard for progressive Democrats in Grayson County to sit still. We want to make our environment better; not sit and watch it become more polluted resulting in more illness. SO DON'T! TAKE ACTION! To work together and take action, you need to JOIN a local environmental group.

Joining a local group will keep you informed about environmental conditions here in Grayson County, in the North Texas region, across Texas, and across America. Working together at the grassroots level will make sure that our local needs are not overlooked. It will also move us to greater action. Grassroots organizations are also more difficult for polluters to ignore.

While we should thank goodness for part of the outcome with the TXU plants, we also have to thank the local environmental group CORE, Citizens Organizing for Resources and Environment. They took effective action in the case of TXU's Savoy pulverized coal power plant proposal. Please go to their website http://www.texomacore.org and join. While they are a non-partisan group, there is no better way for a progressive Grayson County Democrat to become involved in local environmental action!