Dorothy Barnett, Executive Director of the Climate + Energy Project joins hosts Brent Ragsdale and Dave Bennett Freeling to talk about climate and energy related legislation in Kansas. We will play clips from the Clean Energy Business Council's 3rd Annual Policy Summit that took place on January 16th and WEALTH Day, (Water, Energy, Air, Land, Transportation & Health) which was February 10th. You can watch the entire WEALTH Coalition Comprehensive Climate Hearing you can click here (or just listen to this EcoRadio KC episode for the highlights!). And while you're clicking around getting educated, find out more of what's goin on in the Sunflower State... Kansas Rural Center's weekly policy watch https://kansasruralcenter.org/category/legislative-policy-watch/ and Loud Light - brief Youtube updates during each week of the Kansas Legislative session https://www.loudlight.org/week-9-2020 ABOUT THE CLIMATE + ENERGY PROJECT It started when founder, Nancy Jackson was having a "dialogue” with her father-in-law, Wes Jackson (founder of The Land Institute) about a proposed coal plant under consideration in Western Kansas. Supporters of the plant badly needed jobs and wanted new transmission lines to carry wind energy. Opponents of the plant feared the impact of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and water use. A…