AMERICAN FALLS - Concerns about global warming have prompted some heavy hitters to join the opposition regarding a planned $1 billion Power County coal gasification plant that would manufacture fertilizer.

With a Friday deadline approaching to submit public comments on the plant's draft air quality permit, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, the national level of the Sierra Club, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund attorneys, the Idaho Conservation League and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition are working collaboratively to force changes.

Their chief concern is that the permit doesn't consider what the proposed Power County Advanced Energy Center would do about the estimated 2.3 million tons per year of carbon dioxide it would emit.

(For the rest of this story, pick up a copy of Tuesday's Journal.)