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Clean Air Advocates Cheer Court Decision on Kansas Coal Plant Expansion
Much of Sunflower’s financial struggles stem from overbuilding capacity at their existing unit, Holcomb I, which is a scenario that could be repeated if Holcomb II is constructed since neither Sunflower nor Tri-State, the Colorado partner, has demonstrated the project is needed. Continue reading
Company Suspends Plan for Northeast Arkansas Power Plant
A power plant developer said Monday it would suspend plans for a new coal-fired unit in northeastern Arkansas for at least five years and stop efforts altogether to build a facility in southern Georgia. The intent at Plum Point is a five-year hold and poor market conditions made it easy to agree to the delay. Continue reading
Who’s Killing the Coal-Fired Power Plant?
EPA rules are only an accelerant, and only in some cases; and may give many power companies the cover to launch costly new projects with huge returns, and to tighten markets in a way that could drive up prices and profits. Companies are shutting down many older, dirtier coal plants because it makes better economic sense. 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
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
EPA Spars with Kansas over Sunflower Coal-fired Power Plant
In their written arguments last month to the Supreme Court, Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) attorneys may have told a stretcher. EPA has consistently told the state that the permit needed more stringent limits on certain pollutants and KDHE not only ignored EPA’s request to amend the permit to include the more stringent limits, but now is actually attempting to mischaracterize EPA’s position to the court. Continue reading
Sierra Club Criticizes Kansas Lawsuit Against EPA on Power Plant Emissions
Utilities across the country have prepared for the new rule by installing pollution controls and using cleaner energy technologies, while Attorney General Derek Schmidt filed a federal lawsuit to block the Cross-State Air Pollution rule. Continue reading
Debate Rages Over Colorado’s Second Largest Power Provider Investing in Kansas Coal Plant
Tri-State’s resource plan shows no need for that plant of that size during the entire 20-year period of their plan. At the same time, they are pouring money into Holcomb 2, which they will own if it gets built. It’s the business plan that seems to be the guiding document for what they’re going to do, and they won’t let us see that. Continue reading
Tri-State Won’t Rule Out Coal-fired Plant, Despite Activist Objections
“We don’t understand why you’re keeping (the coal plant) as an option,” said Bruce Driver, a consultant with Western Resource Advocates, a Boulder-based environmental-research group. “Your own modeling shows no need for Holcomb.” Environmentalists and renewable-energy advocates say the utility easily could meet its demand need and much more with a combination of renewables, energy-efficiency programs and natural-gas-fired plants. Continue reading
Coal Plant Critics File Supreme Court Brief
Environmental activists working against a proposed $2.8 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas filed a brief with the Kansas Supreme Court outlining objections to issuance of a state permit needed to proceed with construction of the controversial projec Continue reading
