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Gains from the Clean Air Act: Bull Market Without the Bust
By Laurie Johnson for NRDC Switchboard Times were great in the 1990s real estate market: if you got in right before the market took off, and cashed out just before it crashed, you could have made a whopping 75% return … Continue reading
Death in the Afternoon
This week, Rod Bremby was asked by Gov. Parkinson to resign his post as head of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Bremby refused, and was then immediately fired. His firing is clearly an attempt to unethically expedite the permitting process for the proposed 895 MW Holcomb coal-fired power plant before Parkinson leaves office in January, and new rules are scheduled to kick in limiting global warming pollution from power plants. Continue reading
Regulator Who Blocked Kansas Coal Plants Ousted by Governor
“It was a midnight execution,” says NRDC senior advocate Theo Spencer. “When everybody’s eyes were on the election, the governor fires the guy who was responsible for protecting public health and the environment so he can ram this power plant through against public opinion.” Continue reading
A Step Forward for Dirty Coal in Kansas, But a Cool New Way to Fight it
If you want to know the details of why this is a bad idea, and why clean energy would be a much better idea, local advocates have developed a very cool new web site/tool www.rethinkrepowerks.org that contrasts the construction of the dirty plant with investments in clean energy. Continue reading
