Kansas Court Clears Way for Sunflower Electric’s $2.2 Billion Coal-fired Power Plant
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Kansas’ highest court has cleared a major obstacle to the long-delayed construction of a big, new coal-fired power plant.
The state Supreme Court on Friday rejected an effort by an environment group to force the state to regulate emissions linked to climate change.
The justices upheld a 2014 decision by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to give Sunflower Electric Power Corp. the go-ahead for its project.
The utility wants to build an 895-megawatt plant adjacent to an existing one outside Holcomb, in southwestern Kansas and estimates the cost at $2.2 billion.
The company and the state’s attorney general said they were pleased by the decision.
But an attorney representing the Sierra Club said the ruling “opens the door for a lot of pollution in Kansas.”
Source: (March 19, 2017) Associated Press
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