Kansas
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U.S. Senate candidate Jim Slattery discusses energy and environment for rural voters
Jim Slattery, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas, dropped by Netroots Nation this morning to talk about how progressives can make inroads in the heartland. His panel, “Rural America and the Progressive Movement,” took a look at some of the reasons rural voters shouldn’t be written off as red. Energy and environment were two […]
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius talks to Grist about her fight against coal and her VP potential
Among the many names swirling in the Obama VP buzz is that of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. A second-term Democratic governor in what’s traditionally seen as a bastion of conservatism, Sebelius earned national attention as the chair of the Democratic Governors Association in 2007 and for delivering the Democratic response to this year’s State of […]
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Looks like …
… the coal battle in Kansas is over for the time being. Score: Coal-0; earth/Sebelius/Kansas ratepayers-1
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The fight over coal heads to a climax in Kansas
The fight over coal in Kansas is headed to a climactic battle on Wednesday, when the legislature gathers to finish its session. Twice it has sent bills to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that would allow two blocked dirty coal plants to move forward; twice she has vetoed. The game on Wed. is for pro-coal legislators to […]
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Kansas coal bill redux
Once again the Kansas legislature has passed a bill pushing for coal plants, and once again Kansas Gov. Sebelius has vowed to veto it. Kansans should be proud. That’s quite an ass-kicker they elected!
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Independent financial analysis finds that coal is a stinker of an investment for Kansas
We’ve been following the ongoing battle over coal in Kansas closely. (The latest is that Gov. Sebelius vetoed a bill that would have moved the plants forward and prevented her KDHE secretary from blocking future plants.) Today brings an interesting development. A new report from a leading financial research firm, Innovest, comes to a blunt […]
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The Kansas City Star: New coal plants are expensive
The Kansas City Star reports:
Electric bills are poised to soar for customers of utilities building coal-fired power plants.
Coal-based electric utility executive responds:
We're moving forward regardless of what you namby-pamby, cheap-energy-loving hippies think.*
Michael Dworkin then raises the obvious question:
You've got to ask: "Do you think we have reached a point where it economically doesn't make sense?"
It will be interesting to see how this affects the Sunflower Electric debate, since the state does now seem to be getting beyond the false belief that coal is cheap.
*Italicized text implied but entirely fabricated by the author.