Where there's a Will, there's a way

KCB Magazine has an excellent feature article on global warming that focuses on an agreement reached between the Sierra Club and Kansas City Power & Light. The clean energy agreement reached between CWLP and the Sierra Club served as a model for the Kansas City compromise.

In this new world of energy in America environmental groups and utility companies might make for strange bedfellows, but by joining together they see a way to accomplish their respective goals. Environmental groups get curbs on pollution. Power companies can find new ways of making profits. “It’s not like we’ve agreed to do anything they want,” Hope says. “We’ll work together to find common ground, and we do believe that, in the long run, the costs will be cheaper with energy efficiency and wind than with coal.”