Press Release - KANSAS CAN DO BETTER THAN COAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2007

CONTACTS:
Craig Volland - 913-334-0556 or
Bill Griffith - 913-702-4611

UPDATE for Event Location

KANSAS CAN DO BETTER THAN COAL

Coalition of health, religious, rural development, and environmental groups launch campaign to promote wind power and refute claims that a massive coal plant is good for Kansas

Press Conference at the State Capitol on Wednesday at noon

Topeka, KS - A broad coalition of health, religious, rural development and environmental groups will hold a press conference to announce a unified campaign to support clean energy for Kansas' future and to explain why a massive coal plant proposed for Western Kansas is not in the long-term best interests of the health of the state's citizens, the state's economy, and its environment.

WHO: Representatives from the coalition

WHEN: Wednesday, October 10th, 2007, 12 noon after the KEC hearing

WHERE: South Steps of the State Capitol Building in Topeka, KS

VISUALS: Coalition members from throughout Kansas will be on hand to support this effort.