Check out my new Celsias article on Governor Kathleen Sebelius and her fight for clean energy in Kansas. She’s like the Rocky Balboa of the West, standing up to to the Sunflower Electric Power Corporation and its dirty, dirty coal. I can’t figure out which I admire more, taking the hard stance against a gas tax holiday in the middle of an intense struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination or serving as the first governor to take on Big Coal directly.
You decide:
One state is amping up the dialogue on U.S. energy policy and the need for more renewable energy sources, and it’s not California.
It’s Kansas.
Governor Kathleen Sebelius and other opponents have spent six months battling a plan for two new coal-fired power plants in western Kansas. They scored big points May 1, when pro-coal legislators didn’t score enough votes in the House to override her veto on bills that would allow the plants.
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Great article. It sound like there’s a huge potential for wind power in Kansas. Here’s hoping that other states are taking note of this shift.
Especially other states with similar wind energy capacity. You know the proposed power plants in the article? Only about 15% of the energy they produce would actually stay in Kansas, although the state would bear the brunt of the emissions. Nice tradeoff, huh?