Kansas Legislature Rejects Koch-Backed Effort To Chip Away At Renewable Energy Standards

Kansas Legislature Rejects Koch-Backed Effort To Chip Away At Renewable Energy Standards: The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that twin votes in Kansas State House and Senate on Thursday put the kibosh on legislative efforts to roll back and delay Kansas’ renewable energy standard (RES). Passed in 2009, Kansas’ RES requires investor-owned utilities to generate 20 percent of peak demand electrical capacity from renewable sources by 2020. The American [...]/p