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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“You’ll Never Look at Dinner the Same Way”

I am dying to see this film: In honor of their efforts to serve naturally raised meat, Chipotle is sponsoring free screenings of “Food, Inc.” across the country. They also trying to spread information about where they are currently offering naturally raised meats, or as they call it, “Food with Integrity.” Good news for my [...]

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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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