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"We're Not in Kansas Anymore"

Climate Change

by  |  on April 18th, 2009  |  0 comments

As you remember, Dorothy and Toto got blown a little off course.  Some coal-fired power plants have had a similar trial.  See Coal Plants Blocked here from October 2007 and a follow-up story at Coal Takes Some Lumps from a year ago.

It turns out that the company trying so desperately to site its plants in Kansas has given up.  See this from the “Lawrence Journal-World.”  They quote a spokesman for Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association:  “The delays in permitting the Kansas project make it unlikely to be available in the near-term.”

Great story for the climate.  Huge kudos for Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and her Department of Health and Environment Secretary, Rod Bremby.

 

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Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years. He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City. He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and a presidential campaign. He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications. He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, sustainability, and energy and the environment at The Center for Global Affairs at NYU. His book, "A Newer World - Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis," will be out from the University Press of New England in December.



Areas of Focus:
the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change

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