3.22.2008 9:12 AM
Kansas Governor Stands Tall Against Coal
A Possible Vice Presidential Candidate Makes Her Move
Kathleen Sebelius, the Democratic governor of Kansas, took her latest hard-line stand against coal, in a move that could send some waves through the presidential race.
Sebelius, who has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama, should he win the Democratic nomination, has been an opponent of expanding the use of coal to make electricity in her state, unless carbon dioxide emissions can be neutralized.
Her position has been controversial enough that attack ads have suggested that a vote against coal is a vote for dictatorships in energy-producing nations around the world.
Friday, she vetoed the Republican approval of a plan to expand a Sunflower Electric Power Corp. power plant, which would have added two 700-megawatt boilers, producing 11 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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