Tag Archives: Kansas
Unequal Risks and Benefits for Citizens in Six States on Keystone XL Pipeline Route
In Kansas, for example, lawmakers gave TransCanada a 10-year tax exemption, which means the state won’t receive any property tax revenue from the pipeline. Meanwhile, each of the other five states—Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas—would earn between $14 million and $63 million a year, according to U.S. State Department estimates. Continue reading
Industry Wields Sway Over Air Pollution Rules, Enforcement
Sunflower Electric’s Kansas permit success (to date) is a telling snapshot of how, when industry flexes its muscles over Clean Air Act issues, it often wins. From Kansas to Louisiana to Texas, Wisconsin and Ohio, community groups have fought new plants, expansions and chronic emissions – only to see industry score victories with regulators and politicians. Continue reading
Hostile Crowd Greets Westar at Rate Hearing
Westar has asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to allow it to increase its rates primarily to offset increased expenses for employee pensions, to expand tree trimming and to offset the effects of a cold summer. Continue reading
As the Water Table Drops, Great Plains Farmers Must Cut Use by 75%
Water users will need to use only a quarter of the water they use now, according to the study. Computer models simulating climate changes that predict more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns bring more uncertainty to the continuation of current water practices. Continue reading
GPACE Executive Moving to Sierra Club Position
Allegrucci begins his work with the Beyond Coal Campaign November 28th. His work as a Senior Campaign Representative will cover the states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. Continue reading
Fair Fight?
Whether people are opposed to or supportive of Sunflower’s coal-fired plant, the regulatory trail this project has traveled over the last four or five years raises questions and concerns. This is a contentious fight, but it doesn’t help KDHE or Kansas to be caught misrepresenting the facts of the case. Continue reading
Is KDHE a Regulator or a Manipulator?
So not only did KDHE ignore EPA’s directives, it tried to mislead the Supreme Court. These are people in charge of protecting our health and environment? Continue reading
More Dirt on Sunflower Electric’s Coal-fired Power Plant
State legislators, Govs. Mark Parkinson and Sam Brownback, and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have not acted in the public’s best interest during this tortured five-year saga. As a result, a weak permit was rushed through to allow the expansion. Continue reading
EPA Says KDHE Not Honest About Permit Objections
An Environmental Protection Agency official has accused lawyers representing a Kansas agency of lying to the state Supreme Court about support for a permit that would allow a $2.8 billion coal-fired power plant to be built in southwest Kansas. Continue reading
Kansas Energy and the Bremby Decision: Four Years Later
Efforts continue to obscure the facts, derail the rule of law, and deny the public interest in order to benefit the coal plant project and its special interest allies, but Mr. Bremby’s decision four years ago remains as visionary and important an act of public service now as it was in October of 2007. Continue reading
