Consider Rep. Scott Schwab, a Kansas Republican. He doesn’t care much for energy mandates -- largely due to his free-market principles, he says. Nor does he buy into the scientific consensus that carbon-spewing power plants are fueling rising seas and other extreme weather. “It’s not changing the environment,” Schwab said of the state’s mandate. What Kansas needs, he said, is the new coal plant, promised long ago but held up in litigation. But lawmakers pushing the rollback were left scratching their heads when Schwab joined others in thwarting the measure in the House, where it was tabled. “It has created a massive industry in our state,” Schwab said of the portfolio standard. “It’s a lot of jobs.”
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:26:42 +0000
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