(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Oct. 5, 2015)
OK, we all want clean air for our family, friends, pets to breathe.
That’s the bottom line…but getting there—at least as it relates to federal rules for electric generating plants—is pretty tricky, and at some point, well, the path doesn’t sound like the way we do things in the United States.
The Kansas Attorney General’s office probably wants to breathe clean air too, but is challenging just how the Environmental Protection Agency is going about forcing states to order that the coal-fired power plants in their states be cleaned up. Now, those were pretty cool power plants when they were built decades ago, when the real issue was probably more about smoke coming out of the stacks than carbon dioxide.