Really? Seriously? Continues to Report on Fraudulent Coal Advocates

Act Green‘s sister blog, Really? Seriously? has been posting extensive coverage of a bewildering story involving a lobbying firm impersonating minority organizations and sending letters to Members of Congress in opposition of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. What follows is the most updated account of the scandal. For more background information, check out [...]

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From Act Green: Kansas Environmentalists Fight Dirty Coal

Originally posted on LCV’s staff and member blog, Act Green. Kansas may be most well-known as the home of flat lands, conservative voters and farms (and, of course, this LCV intern) but the state is also home to several environmental organizations working hard to reject dirty coal and business as usual. On Friday, the Kansas [...]

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Send a Thank You Note to the EPA!

Join Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) and Sierra Club in thanking the the EPA for Assuring the Public Has an Opportunity to Participate in the Permitting of New Coal Plants. My time at the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy may have ended, but the clean energy battle in Kansas is still very close [...]

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Senators Meet With Coal Developers

(The following was originally posted on LCV’s staff blog Act Green.) – Yesterday, LCV intern Kelly Jacobsen had the opportunity to sit in on a roundtable discussion hosted by Senators Thomas Carper (D-DE) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio). The topic of the discussion was the future of coal in the context of H.R. 2454, the American [...]

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Celebrating My Independence

To put it lightly, a lot has happened in my life since last Fourth of July. This time last year, I was spending an insane amount of hours a week attending small town Kansas county fairs and parades wearing a “Nancy Boyda for Congress” t-shirt. I set a goal to ride as many ferris wheels [...]

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