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  Obviously...

  You people don't know enough about Sebelius! She's the bomb - fought like hell to keep new coal plants out of her state.On Who should be next head of the EPA? posted 12 months ago 8 Responses

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  FYI

  One of Barack's closet advisors is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Denis McDonough. On Direct mailers from Obama campaign hail 'clean Kentucky coal' posted 1 year, 5 months ago 22 Responses

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  Lighten up

  If you believed this for even a second, you haven't been listening to anything Gore has said in months.On Gore will run for president as independent, sources tell Grist posted 1 year, 7 months ago 34 Responses

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  And I even have all my own teeth.

  I  live in Evansville, Indiana, south of Edwardsport. Two hundred of us turned out for the first Step It Up rally in April, with a local focus on this plant. We convinced our utility, Vectren, to back out of the deal. Vectren also announced it would buy energy from a windfarm in northern Indiana. But that sort of enlightenment is scarce in Indianapolis. I can assure you that the state EPA under Bush's "blade," Gov. Mitch Daniels (who called southern Indiana "the Saudi Arabia of coal"), would never reject this plant.

  Now if you'll excuse me, I have a banjo to play...
  On Duke wins approval for a $3100/kW plant posted 1 year, 11 months ago 26 Responses

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  Southern Indiana is not hip.

  I  live in Evansville, south of Edwardsport. Our first Step It Up rally in April focused on Duke's plant. 200 people showed up, and in Eville that's a great turnout. Along with the knowledge and efforts of Valley Watch, a local watchdog group, we convinced our utility, Vectren, to back out of investing in this plant.

  We already live within 62 miles of 17 coal plants - the greatest concentration in the world. We had air quality alerts this year from May to September.

  But Bush's pal Mitch Daniels has been intent on building more coal plants here since before he took office.

  Valley Watch calls us an "energy sacrifice zone" and indeed that seems to be the way Daniels perceives us as well. Daniels recently called southern Indiana "the Saudi Arabia of coal." This is how backwards he is in his thinking. Climate change isn't even on the radar.

  We've got plants popping up in Western Kentucky, too.

  http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/oct/30/peabody-narr ...

  Any attention Grist and environmental groups want to focus on our area is more than welcome!On Indiana regulators approve coal plant posted 1 year, 11 months ago 5 Responses